Dialogue with Trypho 119.1

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

Summary: Understanding Scripture is a gift of grace.

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Greek text · Archambault 2:208

Ἐγώ τε αὖ εἶπον· Οἴεσθε ἂν ἡμᾶς ποτε, ὦ ἄνδρες, νενοηκέναι δυνηθῆναι ἐν ταῖς γραφαῖς ταῦτα, εἰ μὴ θελήματι τοῦ θελήσαντος αὐτὰ ἐλάβομεν χάριν τοῦ νοῆσαι; Ἵνα γένηται καὶ τὸ λελεγμένον ὑπὸ Μωσέως·

English · Claude translation

And I said again, “Do you think, sirs, that we could ever have understood these things in the Scriptures, if we had not received grace to understand them by the will of him who willed them? So that what was said by Moses might also come to pass:

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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)
Topics: Scripture and canon

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Justin, Dial. 119.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/119/1/).

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Justin, Dial. 119.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/119/1/).

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