Dialogue with Trypho 136.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:288–290

Οὗτοι δέ εἰσιν οὓς εἶπε σπερεῖν καὶ γεννήσειν· ὑμεῖς γὰρ οὔτε καλοῦντος αὐτοῦ ἀνέχεσθε οὔτε λαλοῦντος ἀκούετε, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ πονηρὸν ἐποιήσατε ἐνώπιον κυρίου. Τὸ δὲ ὑπερβάλλον ὑμῶν τῆς κακίας τὸ καὶ μισεῖν, ὃν ἐφονεύσατε, δίκαιον καὶ τοὺς ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ λαβόντας εἶναι ὅπερ εἰσίν, εὐσεβεῖς καὶ δίκαιοι καὶ φιλάνθρωποι. Τοιγαροῦν Οὐαὶ τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτῶν λέγει κύριος, διότι βεβούλευνται βουλὴν πονηρὰν καθʼ ἑαυτῶν, εἰπόντες· Ἄρωμεν τὸν δίκαιον, ὅτι δύσχρηστος ἡμῖν ἐστιν.

English · Claude translation

“And these are those whom he said he would sow and beget; for you neither bear with him when he calls nor listen when he speaks, but you have done evil before the Lord. And the height of your wickedness is that you hate the Righteous One whom you killed, and those who have received from him to be what they are, pious and righteous and loving to mankind. Therefore the Lord says, ‘Woe to their soul, for they have planned an evil plan against themselves, saying: Let us take away the righteous one, for he is troublesome to us.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:288–290 · 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 65:12 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 3:9 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 3:10 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): μισεῖν, ὅν ἐφονεύσατε → μισεῖν, ὃν ἐφονεύσατε.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 136.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/136/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 136.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/136/2/).