Dialogue with Trypho 16.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:76

Ἀπεκτείνατε γὰρ τὸν δίκαιον καὶ πρὸ αὐτοῦ τοὺς προφήτας αὐτοῦ· καὶ νῦν τοὺς ἐλπίζοντας ἐπʼ αὐτὸν καὶ τὸν πέμψαντα αὐτὸν παντοκράτορα καὶ ποιητὴν τῶν ὅλων θεὸν ἀθετεῖτε καί, ὅσον ἐφʼ ὑμῖν, ἀτιμάζετε, καταρώμενοι ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς ὑμῶν τοὺς πιστεύοντας ἐπὶ τὸν Χριστόν. Οὐ γὰρ ἐξουσίαν ἔχετε αὐτόχειρες γενέσθαι ἡμῶν διὰ τοὺς νῦν ἐπικρατοῦντας· ὁσάκις δὲ ἂν ἐδυνήθητε, καὶ τοῦτο ἐπράξατε.

English · Claude translation

“For you killed the Righteous One, and before him his prophets; and now you reject those who hope in him and in the one who sent him, God Almighty and Maker of all things, and, as far as you can, dishonor them, cursing in your synagogues those who believe in Christ. For you do not have authority to lay hands on us yourselves, because of those who now rule; but whenever you could, you did this too.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:76 · 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

Acts 7:52 · echo, high confidence
1 Thess 2:15 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

“Cursing in your synagogues those who believe in Christ”: often connected with the Birkat ha-Minim, a benediction against heretics in the synagogue prayer; its date and original target are debated.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 16.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/16/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 16.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/16/4/).