Dialogue with Trypho 136.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Rejecting Christ is rejecting the Father who sent him.

Greek text · Archambault 2:290

Οὐ γὰρ καὶ ὑμεῖς τῇ Βάαλ ἐθύετε, ὡς οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν, οὐδὲ ἐν συσκίοις ἢ μετεώροις τόποις πέμματα ἐποιεῖτε τῇ στρατιᾷ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ἀλλʼ ὅτι οὐκ ἐδέξασθε τὸν Χριστὸν αὐτοῦ. Ὁ γὰρ τοῦτον ἀγνοῶν ἀγνοεῖ καὶ τὴν βουλὴν τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ ὁ τοῦτον ὑβρίζων καὶ μισῶν καὶ τὸν πέμψαντα· δηλονότι καὶ μισεῖ καὶ ὑβρίζει· καὶ εἰ οὐ πιστεύει τις εἰς αὐτόν, οὐ πιστεύει τοῖς τῶν προφητῶν κηρύγμασι τοῖς αὐτὸν εὐαγγελισαμένοις καὶ κηρύξασιν εἰς πάντας.

English · Claude translation

“For you are not sacrificing to Baal, like your fathers, nor making cakes in shady or high places for the host of heaven; but you have not received his Christ. For whoever does not know him does not know the counsel of God either, and whoever insults and hates him clearly also hates and insults the one who sent him; and if anyone does not believe in him, he does not believe the proclamations of the prophets, who preached the gospel of him and proclaimed him to all.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:290 · 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

Jer 7:18 · allusion, medium confidence
Jer 44:19 · allusion, medium confidence
John 15:23 · echo, high confidence
Luke 10:16 · echo, high confidence
John 5:46 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 136.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/136/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 136.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/136/3/).