Whatever things were rightly said among all men, are the property of us Christians. For next to God, we worship and love the Word who is from the unbegotten and ineffable God, since also He became man for our sakes, that, becoming a partaker of our sufferings, He might also bring us healing. For all the writers were able to see realities darkly through the sowing of the implanted word that was in them. For the seed and imitation imparted according to capacity is one thing, and quite another is the thing itself, of which there is the participation and imitation according to the grace which is from Him (Second Apology, 13).
— Justin Martyr
Cited from: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, vol. 1, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1885)
There are seeds of the divine Word scattered all around. All people have a glimmer of the truth. But ultimately all truth is God’s truth. But Justin testifies as a Christian of being among those who worship and love the Word, Jesus Christ, who came from the uncreated indescribable God and incarnated as a man to partake in our struggles and remedy the spiritual sickness that plagues us all. Christ brings us into relationship with God and restores us as people made in the image and likeness of God.
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