Assertion: justin martyr | /r/CapableOf | find a prefiguration of the cross
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text: The two great circles of the heavens, the equator and the ecliptic, which, by intersecting each other form a sort of recumbent chi and about which the whole dome of the starry heavens swings in a wondrous rhythm, became for the Christian eye a heavenly cross."Of Plato's image in Timaeus, Justin Martyr, the Christian apologist writing in the second century, found a prefiguration of the Cross (Robert Grigg, "Symphōnian Aeidō tēs Basileias":