Dialogue with Trypho 112.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:174–176

Ἐὰν δὲ ὅσοι διδάσκαλοι ὑμῶν, διὰ τί κάμηλοι μὲν θήλειαι ἐν τῷδε τῷ τόπῳ οὐ λέγονται, ἢ τί εἰσιν αἱ λεγόμεναι κάμηλοι θήλειαι, ἢ διὰ τί σεμιδάλεως μέτρα τόσα καὶ ἐλαίου μέτρα τόσα ἐν ταῖς προσφοραῖς, μόνα ἐξηγοῦνται ὑμῖν, καὶ ταῦτα ταπεινῶς καὶ χαμερπῶς, τὰ δὲ μεγάλα καὶ ἄξια ζητήσεως μηδέποτε τολμῶσι λέγειν μηδὲ ἐξηγεῖσθαι, ἢ καὶ ἡμῶν ἐξηγουμένων παραγγέλλουσιν ὑμῖν μηδὲ ὅλως ἐπαίειν μηδὲ εἰς κοινωνίαν λόγων ἐλθεῖν, οὐχὶ δικαίως ἀκούσονται ἅπερ πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἔφη ὁ ἡμέτερος κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός· Τάφοι κεκονιαμένοι, ἔξωθεν φαινόμενοι ὡραῖοι καὶ ἔσωθεν γέμοντες ὀστέων νεκρῶν, τὸ ἡδύοσμον ἀποδεκατοῦντες, τὴν δὲ κάμηλον καταπίνοντες, τυφλοὶ ὁδηγοί;

English · Claude translation

“But if your teachers explain to you only why female camels are not mentioned in this place, or what the so-called female camels are, or why so many measures of fine flour and so many measures of oil are in the offerings, and these things in a low and groveling way, while they never dare to speak of or explain the great things worth inquiring into, or even, when we explain them, command you not to listen at all nor to enter into discussion, will they not justly hear what our Lord Jesus Christ said to them: ‘Whitewashed tombs, outwardly appearing beautiful and inside full of dead men's bones; tithing mint, but swallowing the camel; blind guides’?

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:174–176 · 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)

Scripture

Matt 23:27 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 23:23 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 23:24 · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): παραγγέλλουσιν ὑμὶν → παραγγέλλουσιν ὑμῖν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 112.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/112/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 112.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/112/4/).