Dialogue with Trypho 29.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:128–130

Μὴ οὖν ἄχθεσθε, μηδὲ ὀνειδίζετε ἡμῖν τὴν τοῦ σώματος ἀκροβυστίαν, ἣν αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς ἔπλασε, μηδέ, ὅτι θερμὸν πίνομεν ἐν τοῖς σάββασι, δεινὸν ἡγεῖσθε· ἐπειδὴ καὶ ὁ θεὸς τὴν αὐτὴν διοίκησιν τοῦ κόσμου ὁμοίως καὶ ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ πεποίηται καθάπερ καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἄλλαις ἁπάσαις, καὶ οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς τὰς προσφορὰς καθὰ καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις ἡμέραις καὶ ἐν ταύτῃ κεκελευσμένοι ἦσαν ποιεῖσθαι, καὶ οἱ τοσοῦτοι δίκαιοι μηδὲν τούτων τῶν νομίμων πράξαντες μεμαρτύρηνται ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

“Do not, then, be vexed, nor reproach us with the uncircumcision of the body, which God himself formed; nor think it terrible that we drink hot water on the Sabbaths; since God too carries on the same government of the world on this day as on all the others, and the high priests were commanded to make the offerings on this day as on the other days, and so many righteous men who did none of these legal observances have been attested by God himself.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:128–130 · 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

John 5:17 · echo, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

“Drink hot water on the Sabbaths”: heating water was forbidden on the Sabbath in Jewish practice.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): ἡμὶν τὴν τοῦ σώματος → ἡμῖν τὴν τοῦ σώματος; ἥν αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς → ἣν αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς; ὲν ταῖς ἄλλαις → ἐν ταῖς ἄλλαις.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 29.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/29/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 29.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/29/3/).