Justin Martyr's Apologies for the Importance of the Word

In Justin Martyr's apologetics, he claims that Socrates was a Christian. This claim is made in the following way: "For whatever ancient law-givers or philosophers uttered well before Christ, they elaborated by finding and contemplating some part of the word" But since they did not know the whole of the word, which is Christ, they often contradicted themselves,. In Justin's imagination then, before Christ's manifestation on Earth, there were glimmers and cracklings of the Logos; these lucky thinkers stumbled onto them. The idea of the divine power of Logos sprinkling seeds of reason throughout earlier centuries was what Justin deployed as an apology for pagans.