Dialogue with Trypho 1.6

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Trypho asks Justin about his own philosophy.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:6–8

Καὶ ὅς ἀστεῖον ὑπομειδιάσας· Σὺ δὲ πῶς, ἔφη, περὶ τούτων φρονεῖς καὶ τίνα γνώμην περὶ θεοῦ ἔχεις καὶ τίς ἡ σὴ φιλοσοφία, εἰπὲ ἡμῖν.

English · Claude translation

And he smiled politely and said, “But what do you think about these things, and what opinion do you hold about God, and what is your philosophy? Tell us.”

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Source: Archambault 1:6–8 · Georges Archambault, ed., Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon, 2 vols., Textes et documents pour l'étude historique du christianisme 8, 11 (Paris: Picard, 1909) · Greek text: G. Archambault, Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon (Paris, 1909), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text: As printed in Archambault. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Archambault (1909); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

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Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): εἰπὲ ἡμὶν → εἰπὲ ἡμῖν.

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Justin, Dial. 1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/1/6/).

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Justin, Dial. 1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/1/6/).

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