14. “And wishing to confirm this, when his disciples did not know whether to believe he had truly risen in the body, and were looking upon him and doubting, he said to them, ‘Ye have not yet faith, see that it is I,’ and he let them handle him, and showed them the prints of the nails in his hands. And when they were by every kind of proof persuaded that it was himself and in the body, they asked him to eat with them, that they might thus still more accurately ascertain that he had in verity risen bodily; and he did eat honeycomb and fish. And when he had thus shown them that there is truly a resurrection of the flesh, and wishing to show them this also, that it is not impossible for flesh to ascend into heaven (as he had said that our dwelling place is in heaven). ‘He was taken up into heaven while they beheld,’ as he was in the flesh.” (Res., c. 9.) Luke xxiv. 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and Acts i. 9. Before presenting Justin, from the Fourth Gospel, the use of this Gospel by his contemporaries will be considered. In _Barnabas_ (c. 6) it is said that “He was to be manifested in flesh and to sojourn among us.” (Com. John i. 14.) It is also said in c. 12, in effect, that the brazen serpent was a type of Jesus. (Com. John iii. 14-18.) Another passage in c. 7, although not cited by the editors, is, “Because they shall see him then in that day having a scarlet robe about his body down to his feet; and they shall say, ‘is not this he whom we once despised and _pierced_ and mocked and crucified?’” This _may_ have had reference to what is recorded only in John, as Apollinaris,[3] bishop of Hierapolis (_cir._ A.D. 170), afterward wrote: “The Son of God, _pierced_ in the sacred side, who shed forth from his side the two things again cleansing, water and blood, word and spirit.” In _Diognetus_, c. 6, it is said that “Christians dwell in the world yet are not of the world.” (Com. John xvii. 11, 14, 16.) In c. 11 it is said, “This is he who was from the beginning” (Com. John i. 1); and in the same chapter, “For who that is rightly taught and begotten by the loving Word, would not seek to know accurately the things which have been clearly shown by the Word to his disciples, to whom the Word being manifested has revealed them.” (Com. John i. 14, 18.) There is but a single _quotation_ in this eloquent Letter, which is as in First Corinthians viii. 1, “Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.”