Dialogue with Trypho 22.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:96

Οὐαὶ οἱ ἐπιθυμοῦντες τὴν ἡμέραν τοῦ κυρίου. Ἵνα τί αὕτη ὑμῖν ἡ ἡμέρα κυρίου; Καὶ αὐτή ἐστι σκότος καὶ οὐ φῶς. Ὃν τρόπον ὅταν ἐκφύγῃ ἄνθρωπος ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ λέοντος, καὶ συναντήσῃ αὐτῷ ἡ ἄρκτος, καὶ εἰσπηδήσῃ εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπερείσηται τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν τοῖχον, καὶ δάκῃ αὐτὸν ὁ ὄφις. Οὐχὶ σκότος ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου καὶ οὐ φῶς, καὶ γνόφος οὐκ ἔχων φέγγος αὐτῆς; Μεμίσηκα, ἀπῶσμαι τὰς ἑορτὰς ὑμῶν, καὶ οὐ μὴ ὀσφρανθῶ ἐν ταῖς πανηγύρεσιν ὑμῶν.

English · Claude translation

“‘Woe to those who desire the day of the Lord! Why is this day of the Lord for you? It is darkness and not light. As when a man flees from the face of a lion, and a bear meets him, and he leaps into his house and leans his hands against the wall, and a serpent bites him. Is not the day of the Lord darkness and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it? I have hated, I have rejected your feasts, and I will not smell the savor of your solemn assemblies.

About this passage

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)

Scripture

Amos 5:18 · quotation, high confidence
Amos 5:19 · quotation, high confidence
Amos 5:20 · quotation, high confidence
Amos 5:21 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): Ὅν τρόπον → Ὃν τρόπον.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 22.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/22/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 22.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/22/2/).