Dialogue with Trypho 34.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Solomon fell into idolatry; Gentile Christians die rather than eat idol offerings.

Greek text · Archambault 1:152–154

Ἀλλὰ καὶ τολμῶ λέγειν ἃ γέγραπται ἐν ταῖς Βασιλείαις ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ πραχθέντα, ὅτι διὰ γυναῖκα ἐν Σιδῶνι εἰδωλολάτρει· ὅπερ οὐχ ὑπομένουσι πρᾶξαι οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν διὰ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ σταυρωθέντος ἐπιγνόντες τὸν ποιητὴν τῶν ὅλων θεόν, ἀλλὰ πᾶσαν αἰκίαν καὶ τιμωρίαν μέχρις ἐσχάτου θανάτου ὑπομένουσι περὶ τοῦ μήτε εἰδωλολατρῆσαι μήτε εἰδωλόθυτα φαγεῖν.

English · Claude translation

“Indeed, I venture to mention what is written in the Books of Kings as done by him: that because of a woman he worshiped idols in Sidon; which those from the nations who have come to know God, the Maker of all, through Jesus who was crucified, will not endure to do, but they endure every outrage and punishment to the point of death rather than worship idols or eat food sacrificed to idols.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:152–154 · 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

1 Kgs 11:1 · allusion, high confidence
1 Kgs 11:5 · allusion, high confidence
Acts 15:29 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 34.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/34/8/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 34.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/34/8/).