Dialogue with Trypho 15.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:72

Ἐὰν δὲ ἀφέλῃς ἀπὸ σοῦ σύνδεσμον καὶ χειροτονίαν καὶ ῥῆμα γογγυσμοῦ, καὶ διδῷς πεινῶντι τὸν ἄρτον σου ἐκ ψυχῆς, καὶ ψυχὴν τεταπεινωμένην ἐμπλήσῃς, τότε ἀνατελεῖ ἐν τῷ σκότει τὸ φῶς σου, καὶ τὸ σκότος σου ὡς μεσημβρία, καὶ ἔσται ὁ θεός σου μετὰ σοῦ διὰ παντός, καὶ ἐμπλησθήσῃ καθὰ ἐπιθυμεῖ ἡ ψυχή σου, καὶ τὰ ὀστᾶ σου πιανθήσονται, καὶ ἔσται ὡς κῆπος μεθύων καὶ πηγὴ ὕδατος ἢ γῆ ᾗ μὴ ἐξέλιπεν ὕδωρ.

English · Claude translation

“‘And if you take away from yourself the bond, and the pointing of the finger, and the word of murmuring, and give your bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your darkness shall be like noonday, and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be filled as your soul desires, and your bones shall be made fat, and they shall be like a watered garden and a spring of water, or a land where water has not failed.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:72 · 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 58:9 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 58:10 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 58:11 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Fasting, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

“Your garments shall quickly spring up”: the LXX reading (τὰ ἱμάτια), where the Hebrew has “your healing.”

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 15.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/15/6/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 15.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/15/6/).