Dialogue with Trypho 142.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: They part as friends, praying for each other; Justin prays that they may come to believe Jesus is the Christ.

Greek text · Archambault 2:310–314

Μεθʼ ἃ ἀπῄεσαν λοιπὸν εὐχόμενοί τέ μοι σωτηρίαν καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ πλοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ πάσης κακίας· ἐγώ τε ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν εὐχόμενος ἔφην· Οὐδὲν ἄλλο μεῖζον ὑμῖν εὔχεσθαι δύναμαι, ὦ ἄνδρες, ἢ ἵνα, ἐπιγνόντες διὰ ταύτης τῆς ὁδοῦ δίδοσθαι παντὶ ἀνθρώπῳ εὐδαιμονεῖν, πάντως καὶ αὐτοὶ ἡμῖν ὅμοια ποιήσητε, τὸν Ἰησοῦν εἶναι τὸν Χριστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ.

English · Claude translation

After this they went away, praying for my safety both on the voyage and from every evil; and I, praying for them, said: “I can pray nothing greater for you, sirs, than that, recognizing that by this way happiness is given to every man, you too may in every way come to think as we do, that Jesus is the Christ of God.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:310–314 · 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

Prayer

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 142.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/142/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 142.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/142/3/).