Dialogue with Trypho 23.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:104

Ἐὰν δὲ ταῦτα οὕτως μὴ ὁμολογήσωμεν, συμβήσεται ἡμῖν εἰς ἄτοπα ἐμπίπτειν νοήματα, ὡς τοῦ αὐτοῦ θεοῦ μὴ ὄντος τοῦ κατὰ τὸν Ἐνὼχ καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους πάντας, οἳ μήτε περιτομὴν τὴν κατὰ σάρκα ἔχοντες μήτε σάββατα ἐφύλαξαν μήτε δὲ τὰ ἄλλα, Μωσέως ἐντειλαμένου ταῦτα ποιεῖν, ἢ τὰ αὐτὰ αὐτὸν δίκαια μὴ ἀεὶ πᾶν γένος ἀνθρώπων βεβουλῆσθαι πράσσειν· ἅπερ γελοῖα καὶ ἀνόητα ὁμολογεῖν φαίνεται.

English · Claude translation

“But if we do not acknowledge these things so, we shall fall into absurd thoughts: as though it were not the same God who was in the time of Enoch and all the others, who neither had circumcision according to the flesh, nor kept Sabbaths or the other things, since Moses commanded them to be done; or as though he did not always will the whole race of men to do the same righteous things; which it seems ridiculous and foolish to admit.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:104 · 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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): οἵ μήτε περιτομὴν → οἳ μήτε περιτομὴν; μήτε δὲ τὰ ἅλλα → μήτε δὲ τὰ ἄλλα.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/23/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/23/1/).