Dialogue with Trypho 14.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:64

Διὰ τοῦ λουτροῦ οὖν τῆς μετανοίας καὶ τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ θεοῦ, ὃ ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀνομίας τῶν λαῶν τοῦ θεοῦ γέγονεν, ὡς Ἡσαίας βοᾷ, ἡμεῖς ἐπιστεύσαμεν, καὶ γνωρίζομεν ὅτι τοῦτʼ ἐκεῖνο, ὃ προηγόρευε, τὸ βάπτισμα, τὸ μόνον καθαρίσαι τοὺς μετανοήσαντας δυνάμενον, τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ ὕδωρ τῆς ζωῆς· οὓς δὲ ὑμεῖς ὠρύξατε λάκκους ἑαυτοῖς, συντετριμμένοι εἰσὶ καὶ οὐδὲν ὑμῖν χρήσιμοι. Τί γὰρ ὄφελος ἐκείνου τοῦ βαπτίσματος, ὃ τὴν σάρκα καὶ μόνον τὸ σῶμα φαιδρύνει;

English · Claude translation

“Through the washing of repentance and of the knowledge of God, then, which was made for the transgression of God's peoples, as Isaiah cries, we have believed, and we make known that this very baptism which he foretold, which alone can cleanse those who have repented, is the water of life; but the cisterns which you have dug for yourselves are broken and of no use to you. For what is the use of that baptism which makes bright the flesh and the body only?

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:64 · 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 2:13 · allusion, high confidence
John 4:10 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Baptism

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): ὅ ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀνομίας → ὃ ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀνομίας.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 14.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/14/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 14.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/14/1/).