Christ’s Death and Resurrection
Justin Martyr, First Apology 42
When, however, the prophetic Spirit speaks of future things as if they had already happened—as it is also glorified in the matters previously mentioned, so that it may offer no ground for objection to those who challenge it—we shall make this clear as well. The Spirit foretells the things that are certainly known to be going to happen as if they had already happened. That one must receive them in this way, attend with your mind to what is said. David, fifteen hundred years before Christ became man and was crucified, spoke the things mentioned before; and not one of those who lived before him, though crucified, gave joy to the nations, nor did any of those after him. But Jesus Christ, who is among us, having been crucified and died, rose again, and having ascended into heaven, reigns; and there is joy among those who belong to him, through the apostles, in all the nations where he has been proclaimed, for those who await the immortality he announced.
Greek
Ὅταν δὲ τὸ προφητικὸν πνεῦμα τὰ μέλλοντα γίνεσθαι ὡς ἤδη γενόμενα λέγῃ, ὡς καὶ ἐν τοῖς προειρημένοις δοξάσαι ἐστίν, ὅπως ἀπολογίαν μὴ παράσχῃ τοῖς ἐντυγχάνουσιν, καὶ τοῦτο διασαφήσομεν. Τὰ πάντως ἐγνωσμένα γενησόμενα προλέγει ὡς ἤδη γενόμενα· ὅτι δὲ οὕτως δεῖ ἐκδέχεσθαι, ἐνατενίσατε τῷ νοῒ τοῖς λεγομένοις. Δαυῒδ ἔτεσι χιλίοις καὶ πεντακοσίοις πρὶν ἢ Χριστὸν ὄνθρωπον γενόμενον σταυρωθῆναι τὰ προειρημένα ἔφη, καὶ οὐδεὶς τῶν πρὸ ἐκείνου γενομένων σταυρωθεὶς εὐφροσύνην παρέσχε τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, ἀλλ᾿ οὐδὲ τῶν μετ᾿ ἐκεῖνον. Ὁ καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς δὲ Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς σταυρωθεὶς καὶ ἀποθανὼν ἀνέστη, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἀνελθὼν εἰς οὐρανόν, καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ διὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐν τοῖς πᾶσιν ἐθνεσι κηρυχθεῖσιν εὐφροσύνη ἐστὶ προσδοκώντων τὴν κατηγγελμένην ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἀφθαρσίαν.