Dialogue with Trypho 28.1

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Trypho concedes the point deserves attention.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:122

Καὶ ὁ Τρύφων· Καὶ πρότερον ἀκηκόαμέν σου τοῦτο προβάλλοντος καὶ ἐπεστήσαμεν· ἄξιον γάρ, ὡς ἀληθῶς εἰπεῖν, ἐπιστάσεως. Καὶ οὔ μοι, ὃ τοῖς πολλοῖς, δοκεῖ λέγειν, ὅτι ἔδοξεν αὐτῷ· τοῦτο γάρ ἐστι πρόφασις ἀεὶ τοῖς μὴ δυναμένοις ἀποκρίνασθαι πρὸς τὸ ζητούμενον.

English · Claude translation

And Trypho said, “We have heard you put this forward before, and we paid attention; for to tell the truth it deserves attention. And I do not think, as most do, that the answer is to say that it pleased him; for that is always the excuse of those who cannot answer the question.”

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Source: Archambault 1:122 · 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)

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Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): ὅ τοῖς πολλοῖς → ὃ τοῖς πολλοῖς.

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Justin, Dial. 28.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/28/1/).

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Justin, Dial. 28.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/28/1/).

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