St. Justin, like many of the great Christian apologists, had come to the Church through the Greek schools. He had searched for truth in all the beaten paths of Greek philosophy and found it not. “Nobody had such faith in Socrates as to die for his doctrines,” he tells us; and it was the eloquence of the martyrs’ sufferings which converted him. The voice of Christ said “Come,” and the heart of the pagan said “Come, Lord Jesus.” He became a Christian and devoted to the cause of making Christ known the whole ardour of heart and intellect with which he had sought and found Him. This Christian Socrates would walk in his philosopher’s dress, which he still retained, through the public places of the city--the porches of the temples, the colonnades, and porticoes and baths, where the _élite_ of Rome used to lounge each day discussing the latest society scandal, the news from the provinces, the elections or the games, and in these places he would converse and dispute with all comers. He had in this way inflicted severe humiliations on many of the pagan philosophers, who went about denouncing the Christians, and earned their thorough hatred. One especially was bitter against him. This was Crescens, a Cynic, whom Justin long expected would denounce him and who did so at length. Justin and six of his disciples were arrested and brought before the Prefect of the City, Junius Rusticus, the Emperor’s most trusted and intimate friend. The dialogue between these two men, both trained in the Greek schools of philosophy but now completely alienated, is typical of the conflict between old and new which marks the age of the Antonines.