Dialogue with Trypho 25.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Isa 63:15–17.

Greek text · Archambault 1:112

Ἐπίστρεψον ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἴδε ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ ἁγίου σου καὶ δόξης. Ποῦ δή ἐστιν ὁ ζῆλός σου καὶ ἡ ἰσχύς; Ποῦ ἔστι τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ ἐλέους σου, ὅτι ἀνέσχου ἡμῶν, κύριε; Σὺ γὰρ ἡμῶν εἶ πατήρ, ὅτι Ἀβραὰμ οὐκ ἔγνω ἡμᾶς, καὶ Ἰσραὴλ οὐκ ἐπέγνω ἡμᾶς. Ἀλλὰ σύ, κύριε πατὴρ ἡμῶν, ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς· ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς ἐστι. Τί ἐπλάνησας ἡμᾶς, κύριε, ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ σου, ἐσκλήρυνας ἡμῶν τὴν καρδίαν τοῦ μὴ φοβεῖσθαί σε;

English · Claude translation

“‘Turn from heaven, and look from your holy and glorious house. Where is your zeal and your strength? Where is the abundance of your mercy, that you have borne with us, Lord? For you are our Father, for Abraham did not know us, and Israel did not acknowledge us. But you, Lord our Father, deliver us; from the beginning your name has been upon us. Why have you made us stray, Lord, from your way, and hardened our heart so that we do not fear you?

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:112 · 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

Isa 63:15 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 63:16 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 63:17 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 25.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/25/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 25.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/25/2/).