Dialogue with Trypho 19.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:86–88

Ὑμῖν οὖν μόνοις ἀναγκαία ἦν ἡ περιτομὴ αὕτη, ἵνα ὁ λαὸς οὐ λαὸς ᾖ καὶ τὸ ἔθνος οὐκ ἔθνος, ὡς καὶ Ὠσηέ, εἷς τῶν δώδεκα προφητῶν, φησί. Καὶ γὰρ μὴ σαββατίσαντες οἱ προωνομασμένοι πάντες δίκαιοι τῷ θεῷ εὐηρέστησαν καὶ μετʼ αὐτοὺς Ἀβραὰμ καὶ οἱ τούτου υἱοὶ ἅπαντες μέχρι Μωσέως, ἐφʼ οὗ ἄδικος καὶ ἀχάριστος εἰς τὸν θεὸν ὁ λαὸς ὑμῶν ἐφάνη ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ μοσχοποιήσας,

English · Claude translation

“For you alone, then, this circumcision was necessary, so that the people might be no people and the nation no nation, as Hosea, one of the twelve prophets, says. For all the righteous men named before pleased God without keeping the Sabbath, and after them Abraham and all his sons until Moses, under whom your people showed itself unjust and ungrateful toward God, making a calf in the wilderness.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:86–88 · 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

Hos 1:9 · allusion, high confidence
Exod 32:4 · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing breathing); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): άναγκαία → ἀναγκαία; εἶς τῶν δώδεκα → εἷς τῶν δώδεκα; ἐφʼ οὖ ἄδικος → ἐφʼ οὗ ἄδικος.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 19.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/19/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 19.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/19/5/).