Dialogue with Trypho 116.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:196

Καὶ ὥσπερ ἀπὸ πυρὸς ἐξεσπασμένοι ἐσμέν, ἀπὸ μὲν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τῶν προτέρων καθαρισθέντες, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς θλίψεως καὶ τῆς πυρώσεως, ἣν πυροῦσιν ἡμᾶς ὅ τε διάβολος καὶ οἱ αὐτοῦ ὑπηρέται πάντες, ἐξ ὧν καὶ πάλιν ἀποσπᾷ ἡμᾶς Ἰησοῦς ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ· ἐνδῦσαι ἡμᾶς τὰ ἡτοιμασμένα ἐνδύματα, ἐὰν πράξωμεν αὐτοῦ τὰς ἐντολάς, ὑπέσχετο, καὶ αἰώνιον βασιλείαν προνοῆσαι ἐπήγγελται.

English · Claude translation

“And we are like brands plucked from the fire, cleansed from our former sins, and plucked from the affliction and burning with which the devil and all his servants burn us, from which Jesus the Son of God again plucks us; he has promised to clothe us with the garments prepared for us if we do his commandments, and has promised to provide an eternal kingdom.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:196 · 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

Zech 3:2 · allusion, high confidence
Zech 3:4 · allusion, high confidence
Rev 3:5 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Persecution, Eschatology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): ὃ τε διάβολος → ὅ τε διάβολος.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 116.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/116/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 116.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/116/2/).