Dialogue with Trypho 26.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Justin replies that only the unrepentant who persecute Christ are excluded; believing Gentiles will inherit with the patriarchs.

Greek text · Archambault 1:114–116

Κἀγώ· Οὐ τοῦτό φημι, ἀλλʼ οἱ τὸν Χριστὸν διώξαντες καὶ διώκοντες καὶ μὴ μετανοοῦντες οὐ κληρονομήσουσιν ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῷ ἁγίῳ οὐδέν· τὰ δὲ ἔθνη τὰ πιστεύσαντα εἰς αὐτὸν καὶ μετανοήσαντα ἐφʼ οἷς ἥμαρτον, αὐτοὶ κληρονομήσουσι μετὰ τῶν πατριαρχῶν καὶ τῶν προφητῶν καὶ τῶν δικαίων ὅσοι ἀπὸ Ἰακὼβ γεγέννηνται· εἰ καὶ μὴ σαββατίζουσι μηδὲ περιτέμνονται μηδὲ τὰς ἑορτὰς φυλάσσουσι, πάντως κληρονομήσουσι τὴν ἁγίαν τοῦ θεοῦ κληρονομίαν.

English · Claude translation

And I said, “I do not say this; but those who persecuted and persecute Christ and do not repent will inherit nothing on the holy mountain; while the nations who have believed in him and repented of their sins will inherit with the patriarchs and the prophets and all the righteous descended from Jacob; and even if they do not keep the Sabbath nor are circumcised nor keep the feasts, they will certainly inherit the holy inheritance of God.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:114–116 · 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

Matt 8:11 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/26/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/26/1/).