“... This impression is strengthened when one studies his argument more closely. In the long quotation of the Isaiah text in Dial. 81:1-2, Justin follows his habit of quoting directly from a rather standard Septuagint text. In this text, Isa 65:22 reads: "For as the days of the tree of life, so shall be the days of my people." When he singles out this phrase for special comment in Dial. 81:3, however, he quotes it in a different reading, corresponding exactly to the Hebrew text: "For as the days of the tree, so shall be the days of my people." In Justin's Greek text, as in the Hebrew, it says simply "tree," not "tree of life". This is more significant than it seems, because it is essential to Justin's argument that the tree in question is the tree of knowledge, not the tree of life. This is how Justin exploits this point: Now, by the words, "For as the days of the tree, so shall be the days of my people, and the works of their hands shall be multiplied," [Isa 65:22] we understand that a period of one thousand years is indicated in symbolic language. When it is said of Adam that "in the day that he eats of the tree [of knowledge], in that he shall die," [Gen 2:17], we knew he was not a thousand years old. We also believe that the words, "The day of the Lord is as a thousand years," [Ps 90:4] also led to the same conclusion. (Dial Sie) This argument is entirely Jewish, set forward for the first time in Jubilees 4:30, frequent in rabbinic literature. 9 1 Adam reached the age of 930, which means he actually died on the very "day" he ate of the tree, since this day was one of the Lord's days lasting one thousand years. It is only after Justin has argued for the existence of a millennium along these lines, apparently in close touch with a Jewish Christian tradition attested in Papias, that he also introduces the book of Revelation as supplementing evidence: "Moreover, a man among us named John, one of Christ's apostles, received a revelation and foretold that followers of Christ would dwell in Jerusalem "for a thousand years" [Rev 20:4,6], and that afterwards the universal and, in short, ev­ erlasting resurrection and judgment would take place" [Rev 20:11-15] (Dial 81.4). 9 2 Justin simply leaps over Rev 20:7-10, the Gog Magog episode, because for him the transition from millennium to eternal life is only one of gradation within continuity. He may indicate one difference between the two stages, however. After the general resurrection human beings shall no longer marry [Luke 20:35-36], Dial 81.4. This probably means they did so in the millennium, as the biblical prophecies indeed indicate they would. ...”