Dialogue with Trypho 25.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:112–114

Ὅταν ποιῆς τὰ ἔνδοξα, τρόμος λήψεται ἀπὸ σοῦ ὄρη. Ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος οὐκ ἠκούσαμεν, οὐδὲ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν εἶδον θεὸν πλὴν σοῦ καὶ τὰ ἔργα σου. Ποιήσει τοῖς μετανοοῦσιν ἔλεον. Συναντήσεται τοῖς ποιοῦσι τὸ δίκαιον, καὶ τῶν ὁδῶν σου μνησθήσονται. Ἰδοὺ σὺ ὠργίσθης, καὶ ἡμεῖς ἡμάρτομεν. Διὰ τοῦτο ἐπλανήθημεν καὶ ἐγενόμεθα ἀκάθαρτοι πάντες, καὶ ὡς ῥάκος ἀποκαθημένης πᾶσα ἡ δικαιοσύνη ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐξερρύημεν ὡς φύλλα διὰ τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν· οὕτως ἄνεμος οἴσει ἡμᾶς.

English · Claude translation

“‘When you do glorious things, trembling from you will seize the mountains. From of old we have not heard, nor have our eyes seen a God besides you, and your works. He will show mercy to those who repent. He will meet those who do what is right, and they will remember your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. Therefore we went astray, and we all became unclean, and all our righteousness is like a filthy rag, and we fell away like leaves because of our transgressions; so the wind will carry us away.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:112–114 · 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 64:3 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 64:4 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 64:5 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 64:6 · 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)): καὶ τά ἔργα σου → καὶ τὰ ἔργα σου.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 25.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/25/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 25.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/25/4/).