Justin Martyr (c. 100-165)
“Reason dictates that those who are truly pious and philosophers should honor and love only the truth, declining to follow the opinions of the ancients, if they are worthless.”
- Justin Martyr’s “First Apology” (chapter 2), translated by Leslie William Barnard in After The New Testament: A Reader In Early Christianity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
