Dialogue with Trypho 131.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:266–268

Καὶ ὑμεῖς δʼ, εἰ βούλεσθε τὴν ἀλήθειαν ὁμολογῆσαι, ὅτι πιστότεροι πρὸς τὸν θεόν ἐσμεν, οἵτινες διὰ τοῦ ἐξουθενημένου καὶ ὀνείδους μεστοῦ μυστηρίου τοῦ σταυροῦ κληθέντες ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ, ὧν καὶ τῇ ὁμολογίᾳ καὶ τῇ ὑπακοῇ καὶ τῇ εὐσεβείᾳ κολάσεις μέχρι θανάτου ὑπὸ τῶν δαιμονίων καὶ τῆς στρατιᾶς τοῦ διαβόλου, διὰ τῆς ὑφʼ ὑμῶν ἐκείνοις γεγενημένης ὑπηρεσίας, προστετίμηνται, πάνθʼ ὑπομένομεν ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηδὲ μέχρι φωνῆς ἀρνεῖσθαι τὸν Χριστόν, διʼ οὗ ἐκλήθημεν εἰς σωτηρίαν τὴν προητοιμασμένην παρὰ τοῦ πατρός,

English · Claude translation

“And you, if you are willing to confess the truth, must admit that we are more faithful to God, who were called by God through the despised and reproachful mystery of the cross, and on whose confession and obedience and piety punishments even to death have been imposed by the demons and the army of the devil, through the help given them by you, and we endure all things rather than deny Christ even in word, through whom we were called to the salvation prepared by the Father,

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:266–268 · 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

1 Cor 1:18 · echo, medium confidence
Matt 25:34 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Martyrdom, Persecution

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (a word is repeated in the digital text (dittography)): παρὰ παρὰ τοῦ πατρός → παρὰ τοῦ πατρός.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 131.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/131/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 131.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/131/2/).