Dialogue with Trypho 133.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christians pray for their persecutors, as Christ commanded.

Greek text · Archambault 2:278–280

Ἔτι γὰρ ἀληθῶς ἡ χεὶρ ὑμῶν πρὸς κακοποιΐαν ὑψηλή, ὅτι καὶ τὸν Χριστὸν ἀποκτείναντες οὐδʼ οὕτως μετανοεῖτε, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡμᾶς, τοὺς πιστεύσαντας διʼ αὐτοῦ τῷ θεῷ καὶ πατρὶ τῶν ὅλων, μισεῖτε καὶ φονεύετε, ὁσάκις ἂν λάβητε ἐξουσίαν, ἀδιαλείπτως δὲ καταρᾶσθε αὐτῷ τε ἐκείνῳ καὶ τοῖς ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, πάντων ἡμῶν εὐχομένων ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν καὶ ὑπὲρ πάντων ἁπλῶς ἀνθρώπων, ὡς ὑπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ κυρίου ποιεῖν ἐδιδάχθημεν, παραγγείλαντος ἡμῖν εὔχεσθαι καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐχθρῶν καὶ ἀγαπᾶν τοὺς μισοῦντας καὶ εὐλογεῖν τοὺς καταρωμένους.

English · Claude translation

“For truly your hand is still raised to do evil; for even after killing Christ you do not repent, but you hate and murder us too, who through him have believed in God the Father of all, whenever you get the power, and you unceasingly curse both him and those who are his; while all of us pray for you and for all men without exception, as we were taught to do by our Christ and Lord, who commanded us to pray even for our enemies, and to love those who hate us, and to bless those who curse us.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:278–280 · 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

Matt 5:44 · allusion, high confidence
Luke 6:27 · allusion, high confidence
Luke 6:28 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Prayer, Persecution

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 133.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/133/6/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 133.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/133/6/).