Dialogue with Trypho 22.1

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

Summary: God commanded sacrifices because of idolatry, not because he needed them.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:96

Καὶ ὅτι διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας τοῦ λαοῦ ὑμῶν καὶ διὰ τὰς εἰδωλολατρείας, ἀλλʼ οὐ διὰ τὸ ἐνδεὴς εἶναι τῶν τοιούτων προσφορῶν, ἐνετείλατο ὁμοίως ταῦτα γίνεσθαι, ἀκούσατε πῶς περὶ τούτων λέγει διὰ Ἀμώς, ἑνὸς τῶν δώδεκα, βοῶν·

English · Claude translation

“And that he likewise commanded these things to be done because of the sins of your people and because of their idolatries, and not because he needed such offerings, hear how he speaks about them through Amos, one of the twelve, crying:

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Source: Archambault 1:96 · 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)

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Justin, Dial. 22.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/22/1/).

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Justin, Dial. 22.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/22/1/).

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