Early Christianity thumb|right|200px|John 1:1 in the page showing the first chapter of John in the King James Bible Heraclitus was often read by early Christian philosophers, whoHistory of Philosophy, by Friedrich Ueberweg, p. 39 following the Stoics, interpreted the logos as meaning the Christian "Word of God", such as in John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word (logos) and the Word was God." Hippolytus of Rome, one of the early Church Fathers of the Christian Church, identified Heraclitus along with the other pre-Socratics and Academics as a source of heresy, in Heraclitus's case namely the heresy of Noetus. The Christian apologist Justin Martyr took a more positive view of Heraclitus. In his First Apology, he said both Socrates and Heraclitus were Christians before Christ: "those who lived reasonably are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists; as, among the Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them."First Apology, Chapter 46 The Christian Clement of Alexandria notes Heraclitus's similarity to the Christian prophets, and is cited as a source for more Heraclitus fragments than any other author.Dinan, Andrew. "Clement of Alexandria's Predication of the Verb μαντευομαι of Heraclitus." Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 16 no. 1, 2008, pp. 31–60. Project MUSE, .Andrew C. Dinan Fragments in Context: Clement of Alexandria's Use of Quotations from Heraclitus (Philo of Alexandria, Plutarch, Greece) 2005. DAI-A 65/11 (May 2005), p. 4184.
Early Christianity thumb|right|200px|John 1:1 in the page showing the first chapter of John in the King James Bible Heraclitus was often read by early Christian philosophers, whoHistory of Philosophy, by Friedrich Ueberweg, p. 39 following the Stoics interpreted the logos as meaning the Christian "Word of God", such as in John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word (logos) and the Word was God." Hippolytus of Rome, one of the early Church Fathers of the Christian Church, identified Heraclitus along with the other pre-Socratics and Academics as a source of heresy, in Heraclitus's case namely the heresy of Noetus. The Christian apologist Justin Martyr took a more positive view of Heraclitus. In his First Apology, he said both Socrates and He,raclitus were Christians before Christ: "those who lived reasonably are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists; as, among the Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them."First Apology, Chapter 46 The Christian Clement of Alexandria notes Heraclitus's similarity to the Christian prophets, and is cited as a source for more Heraclitus fragments than any other author.Dinan, Andrew. "Clement of Alexandria's Predication of the Verb μαντευομαι of Heraclitus." Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 16 no. 1, 2008, pp. 31–60. Project MUSE, .Andrew C. Dinan Fragments in Context: Clement of Alexandria's Use of Quotations from Heraclitus (Philo of Alexandria, Plutarch, Greece) 2005. DAI-A 65/11 (May 2005), p. 4184.