Dialogue with Trypho 137.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:290–292

Μὴ δή, ὦ ἀδελφοί, κακόν τι εἴπητε εἰς ἐκεῖνον τὸν ἐσταυρωμένον, μηδὲ χλευάσητε αὐτοῦ τοὺς μώλωπας, οἷς ἰαθῆναι πᾶσι δυνατόν, ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς ἰάθημεν. Καλὸν γάρ, ἢν πεισθέντες τοῖς λόγοις περιτμηθῆτε τὴν σκληροκαρδίαν, ἣν οὐχὶ διʼ ὑμῶν ἐγγινομένην γνώμην ἔχετε, ἐπειδὴ εἰς σημεῖον ἦν δεδομένη, ἀλλʼ οὐκ εἰς δικαιοπραξίας ἔργον, ὡς οἱ λόγοι ἀναγκάζουσι.

English · Claude translation

“Do not, brothers, say anything evil against that crucified one, nor mock his stripes, by which all can be healed, as we too have been healed. For it would be good if, persuaded by these words, you were circumcised from your hardness of heart, which you have, not as a disposition arising through yourselves, since circumcision was given as a sign, and not as a work of righteousness, as the words compel us to admit.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:290–292 · 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 53:5 · allusion, high confidence
1 Pet 2:24 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): σκληροκαρδίαν, ἥν οὐχὶ → σκληροκαρδίαν, ἣν οὐχὶ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 137.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/137/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 137.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/137/1/).