Dialogue with Trypho 23.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: God is always the same; he commanded the law for sinners' sake.

Greek text · Archambault 1:104

Διʼ αἰτίαν δὲ τὴν τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν ἀνθρώπων τὸν αὐτὸν ὄντα ἀεὶ ταῦτα καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐντετάλθαι ὁμολογεῖν, καὶ φιλάνθρωπον καὶ προγνώστην καὶ ἀνενδεῆ καὶ δίκαιον καὶ ἀγαθὸν ἀποφαίνειν ἔστιν. Ἐπεὶ εἰ μὴ ταῦτα οὕτως ἔχει, ἀποκρίνασθέ μοι, ὦ ἄνδρες, περὶ τῶν ζητουμένων τούτων ὅ τι φρονεῖτε.

English · Claude translation

“But it is possible to acknowledge that the one who is always the same commanded these and such things for the sake of sinful men, and to declare him loving to mankind, foreknowing, without need, just, and good. For if this is not so, answer me, sirs, what you think about the matters under inquiry.”

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)

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 23.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/23/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 23.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/23/2/).