Sophia Scriptura

Dialogue with Trypho 117.5

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

Summary: Prayers in Jesus' name are offered among every people on earth.

Greek text · Archambault 2:204

Οὐδὲ ἓν γὰρ ὅλως ἐστί τι γένος ἀνθρώπων, εἴτε βαρβάρων εἴτε Ἑλλήνων εἴτε ἁπλῶς ᾡτινιοῦν ὀνόματι προσαγορευομένων, ἢ ἁμαξοβίων ἢ ἀοίκων καλουμένων ἢ ἐν σκηναῖς κτηνοτρόφων οἰκούντων, ἐν οἷς μὴ διὰ τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ σταυρωθέντος Ἰησοῦ εὐχαὶ καὶ εὐχαριστίαι τῷ πατρὶ καὶ ποιητῇ τῶν ὅλων γίνωνται. Εἶτα δὲ ὅτι κατʼ ἐκεῖνο τοῦ καιροῦ, ὅτε ὁ προφήτης Μαλαχίας τοῦτο ἔλεγεν, οὐδέπω ἡ διασπορὰ ὑμῶν ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ, ἐν ὅσῃ νῦν γεγόνατε, ἐγεγένητο, ὡς καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν γραφῶν ἀποδείκνυται.

English · Claude translation

“For there is not one single race of men, whether barbarians or Greeks or called by any name at all, whether wagon-dwellers or those called houseless or those who live in tents raising cattle, among whom prayers and thanksgivings are not offered to the Father and Maker of all through the name of the crucified Jesus. And further, at the time when the prophet Malachi said this, your dispersion over the whole earth, as far as you are now spread, had not yet taken place, as is also shown from the Scriptures.

About this passage

Source
Archambault 2:204 · 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
Topics
Prayer, Eucharist

Notes

Translation notes

  • A famous (and rhetorically exaggerated) claim to the universal spread of Christianity.

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Justin, Dial. 117.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/117/5/).

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Justin, Dial. 117.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/117/5/).

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