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Dialogue with Trypho 21.4

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Ezek 20:25–26: God gave statutes that were not good.

Greek text · Archambault 1:94–96

Καὶ ἐγὼ ἔδωκα αὐτοῖς προστάγματα οὐ καλά, καὶ δικαιώματα ἐν οἷς οὐ ζήσονται ἐν αὐτοῖς· καὶ μιανῶ αὐτοὺς ἐν τοῖς δώμασιν αὐτῶν, ἐν τῷ διαπορεύεσθαί με πᾶν διανοῖγον μήτραν ὅπως ἀφανίσω.

English · Claude translation

“‘And I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances by which they shall not live; and I will defile them in their gifts, when I pass through every one that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.’

About this passage

Source
Archambault 1:94–96 · 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
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Ezekiel's “statutes that were not good” is a key text for Justin's view that parts of the law were given because of Israel's sin.

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Justin, Dial. 21.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/21/4/).

Plain text
Justin, Dial. 21.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/21/4/).

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