Dialogue with Trypho 14.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:64–66

Διὸ καὶ μετὰ τὰς ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας τῶν ἀζυμοφαγιῶν νέαν ζύμην φυρᾶσαι ἑαυτοῖς ὁ θεὸς παρήγγειλε, τουτέστιν ἄλλων ἔργων πρᾶξιν καὶ μὴ τῶν παλαιῶν καὶ φαύλων τὴν μίμησιν. Καὶ ὅτι τοῦτό ἐστιν ὃ ἀξιοῖ ὑμᾶς οὗτος ὁ καινὸς νομοθέτης, τοὺς προλελεγμένους ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ λόγους πάλιν ἀνιστορήσω μετὰ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν παραλειφθέντων. Εἴρηνται δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἡσαίου οὕτως·

English · Claude translation

“That is why God commanded that after the seven days of eating unleavened bread you should knead new leaven for yourselves, that is, the practice of other works and not the imitation of the old and evil ones. And to show that this is what this new lawgiver asks of you, I will recount again the words I quoted before, together with others that were omitted. They were spoken by Isaiah thus:

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:64–66 · 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)

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): τοῦτό ἐστιν ὅ ἀξιοῖ → τοῦτό ἐστιν ὃ ἀξιοῖ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 14.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/14/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 14.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/14/3/).