Dialogue with Trypho 133.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Despite God's wonders, Israel sacrificed children and rejected Christ; Justin prays for their salvation.

Greek text · Archambault 2:274

Καί, τούτων καὶ πάντων τῶν τοιούτων παραδόξων καὶ θαυμαστῶν ὑμῖν γενομένων τε καὶ ὁρωμένων κατὰ καιρούς, ἐλέγχεσθε καὶ διὰ τῶν προφητῶν μέχρι τοῦ καὶ τὰ ἑαυτῶν τέκνα τεθυκέναι τοῖς δαιμονίοις καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοις πᾶσι τοιαῦτα τετολμηκέναι εἰς τὸν Χριστὸν καὶ ἔτι τολμᾶν, ἐφʼ οἷς πᾶσι γένοιτο ὑμῖν, ἔλεος παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ λαβοῦσι, σωθῆναι.

English · Claude translation

“And though all these and similar marvelous and wonderful things were done and seen by you in their times, you are convicted by the prophets of having even sacrificed your own children to demons, and besides all this of having dared and still daring such things against Christ; for all of which may you obtain mercy from God and his Christ and be saved.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:274 · 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

Ps 106:37 (105:37 LXX) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Prayer

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 133.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/133/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 133.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/133/1/).