“The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we behold His
    Glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father, full of
    grace and truth.”

Except in these two places (and, of course, I need not say that they are all-important as containing by implication the whole truth of God respecting Christ), there is no mention whatsoever of the “Word” in this Gospel.

The Fourth Gospel gives to Jesus the name of God only in two places, i.e. in the narrative of the second appearance of our Lord to His apostles assembled together after His Resurrection, where Thomas is related to have said to Him the words, “My Lord and my God;” and in the words “The Word was God” taken in connection with “the Word was made flesh.”  The indirect, but certain, proofs by implication that Jesus fully shared with His Father the Divine Nature are numerous, as, for instance, that He wields all the power of Godhead, in that “whatsoever things [the Father] doeth these doeth the Son likewise”—­that He is equal in point of nature with the Father, because God is His own proper Father ([Greek:  idios])—­that He raises from the dead whom He wills—­that He and the Father are One—­that when Esaias saw the glory of God in the temple he saw Christ’s glory; and, because of all this, He is the object of faith, even of the faith which saves.

But, as my purpose is not to show that either Justin or St. John hold the Godhead of our Lord, but rather to compare the statements of the one with the other; and, inasmuch as to cite the passages in which Justin Martyr assumes that our Blessed Lord possesses all Divine attributes would far exceed the limits which I have proposed to myself, I shall not further cite the passages in St. John, which only imply our Lord’s Godhead, but proceed to cite the direct statements of Justin (or rather some of them) on this head.

Whereas, then, St. John categorically asserts the Godhead of our Lord in one, or, at the most, two places, Justin directly asserts it nearly forty times.  The following are noticeable:—­

“And Trypho said, You endeavour to prove an incredible and well-nigh impossible thing; [namely] that God endured to be born and become man. [69:1] If I undertook, said I, [Justin] to prove this by doctrines or arguments of men, you should not bear with me.  But if I quote frequently Scriptures, and so many of them, referring to this point, and ask you to comprehend them, you are hard-hearted in the recognition of the mind and will of God.” (Dial. ch. lxviii.)

Again:—­

    “This very Man Who was crucified is proved to have been set forth
    expressly as God and Man, and as being crucified and as dying.”
    [69:2] (Dial. ch. lxxi.)

Again, Justin accuses the Jews of having mutilated the Prophetical Scriptures, by having cut out of them the following prophecy respecting our Lord’s descent into hell:—­