Dialogue with Trypho 14.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:64

Βαπτίσθητε τὴν ψυχὴν ἀπὸ ὀργῆς καὶ ἀπὸ πλεονεξίας, ἀπὸ φθόνου, ἀπὸ μίσους· καὶ ἰδοὺ τὸ σῶμα καθαρόν ἐστι. Τοῦτο γάρ ἐστι τὸ σύμβολον τῶν ἀζύμων, ἵνα μὴ τὰ παλαιὰ τῆς κακῆς ζύμης ἔργα πράττητε. Ὑμεῖς δὲ πάντα σαρκικῶς νενοήκατε, καὶ ἡγεῖσθε εὐσέβειαν, ἐὰν τοιαῦτα ποιοῦντες τὰς ψυχὰς μεμεστωμένοι ἦτε δόλου καὶ πάσης κακίας ἁπλῶς.

English · Claude translation

“Be baptized in the soul from anger and from greed, from envy, from hatred; and behold, the body is clean. For this is the meaning of the unleavened bread: that you should not do the old works of the bad leaven. But you have understood everything in a fleshly way, and you think it piety if, while doing such things, your souls are full of deceit and in short of every vice.

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

1 Cor 5:7 · echo, high confidence
1 Cor 5:8 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Baptism, Ethics

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (capital lost at the start of a sentence)): βαπτίσθητε τὴν ψυχὴν → Βαπτίσθητε τὴν ψυχὴν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 14.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/14/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 14.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/14/2/).