Dialogue with Trypho 118.5

Summary: Trypho welcomes the repetition.

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Greek text · Archambault 2:208

Κἀκεῖνος· Εὖ ποιεῖς, ἔφη· κἂν διὰ πλειόνων δὲ καὶ τὰ αὐτὰ πάλιν λέγῃς, χαίρειν με καὶ τοὺς συνόντας τῇ ἀκροάσει γίνωσκε.

And he said, “You do well; and even if you say the same things again at greater length, know that I and those with me rejoice to hear them.”

Source: Archambault 2:208 · 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)

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): Κὰκεῖνος → Κἀκεῖνος.

Justin, Dial. 118.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/118/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 118.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/118/5/).