Dialogue with Trypho 123.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:230

Ὡς οὖν πάντα ταῦτα εἴρηται πρὸς τὸν Χριστὸν καὶ τὰ ἔθνη, οὕτως κἀκεῖνα εἰρῆσθαι νομίζετε. Οὐδὲν γὰρ χρῄζουσιν οἱ προσήλυτοι διαθήκης, εἰ, ἑνὸς καὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ πᾶσι τοῖς περιτεμνομένοις κειμένου νόμου, περὶ ἐκείνων οὕτως ἡ γραφὴ λέγει· Καὶ προστεθήσεται καὶ ὁ γηόρας πρὸς αὐτούς, καὶ προστεθήσεται πρὸς τὸν οἶκον Ἰακώβ. Καὶ ὅτι μὲν προσήλυτος ὁ περιτεμνόμενος εἰς τὸ τῷ λαῷ προσκεχωρηκέναι ἐστὶν ὡς αὐτόχθων, ἡμεῖς δὲ λαὸς κεκλῆσθαι ἠξιωμένοι ὁμοίως ἔθνος ἐσμὲν διὰ τὸ ἀπερίτμητοι εἶναι.

English · Claude translation

“As, then, all these things were spoken to Christ and the nations, so you are to think those words were spoken too. For the proselytes have no need of a covenant, if, one and the same law being laid down for all who are circumcised, the Scripture speaks of them thus: ‘And the sojourner shall be added to them, and shall be added to the house of Jacob.’ And the proselyte who is circumcised, to join the people, is like a native; but we, who have been counted worthy to be called a people, are likewise a nation because we are uncircumcised.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:230 · 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

Isa 14:1 · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text): νομίζετε, Οὐδὲν γὰρ → νομίζετε. Οὐδὲν γὰρ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 123.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/123/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 123.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/123/1/).