Dialogue with Trypho 20.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:90–92

Καὶ βουλομένου αὐτοῦ εἰπεῖν Ὡς λάχανα χόρτου, προεῖπον ἐγώ· Τὸ ὡς λάχανα χόρτου τοῦ μὴ ἀκούσεσθε ὡς εἴρηται ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ, ὅτι ὡς τὰ λάχανα εἰς τροφὴν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐπεποιήκει ὁ θεός, οὕτως καὶ τὰ ζῶα εἰς κρεωφαγίαν ἐδεδώκει; Ἀλλʼ ἐπεί τινα τῶν χόρτων οὐκ ἐσθίομεν, οὕτω καὶ διαστολὴν ἔκτοτε τῷ Νῶε διεστάλθαι φατέ.

English · Claude translation

And when he was about to say, “As the green herbs,” I said first: “Why do you not understand ‘as the green herbs’ as spoken by God, meaning that as God had made the herbs for man's food, so he had given the animals for eating meat? But since we do not eat some herbs, you say that a distinction was also made for Noah from that time.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:90–92 · 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 9:3 · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): εἰπεὶν → εἰπεῖν; τροφὴν τῳ ἀνθρώπῳ → τροφὴν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ; διαστολήν ἔκτοτε → διαστολὴν ἔκτοτε.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 20.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/20/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 20.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/20/2/).