Dialogue with Trypho 16.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:74

Ἡ γὰρ ἀπὸ Ἀβραὰμ κατὰ σάρκα περιτομὴ εἰς σημεῖον ἐδόθη, ἵνα ἦτε ἀπὸ τῶν ἄλλων ἐθνῶν καὶ ἡμῶν ἀφωρισμένοι, καὶ ἵνα μόνοι πάθητε ἃ νῦν ἐν δίκῃ πάσχετε, καὶ ἵνα γένωνται αἱ χῶραι ὑμῶν ἔρημοι καὶ αἱ πόλεις πυρίκαυστοι, καὶ τοὺς καρποὺς ἐνώπιον ὑμῶν κατεσθίωσιν ἀλλότριοι, καὶ μηδεὶς ἐξ ὑμῶν ἐπιβαίνῃ εἰς τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ.

English · Claude translation

“For the circumcision according to the flesh, from Abraham, was given for a sign, that you might be separated from the other nations and from us, and that you alone might suffer what you now justly suffer, and that your lands might become desolate and your cities burned with fire, and strangers might eat your fruits before your eyes, and none of you might go up to Jerusalem.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:74 · 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

Gen 17:11 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 1:7 · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

A harsh passage written soon after the Bar Kokhba war, when Hadrian barred Jews from Jerusalem (compare 1 Apol. 47). Justin reads the disasters as divine judgment; this polemic is translated as written.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/16/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/16/2/).