Dialogue with Trypho 35.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:156

Εἶπε γάρ· Πολλοὶ ἐλεύσονται ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματί μου, ἔξωθεν ἐνδεδυμένοι δέρματα προβάτων, ἔσωθεν δέ εἰσι λύκοι ἅρπαγες. Καί· Ἔσονται σχίσματα καὶ αἱρέσεις. Καί· Προσέχετε ἀπὸ τῶν ψευδοπροφητῶν, οἵτινες ἐλεύσονται πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἔξωθεν ἐνδεδυμένοι δέρματα προβάτων, ἔσωθεν δέ εἰσι λύκοι ἅρπαγες. Καί· Ἀναστήσονται πολλοὶ ψευδόχριστοι καὶ ψευδοαπόστολοι, καὶ πολλοὺς τῶν πιστῶν πλανήσουσιν.

English · Claude translation

“For he said, ‘Many will come in my name, clothed outwardly in sheep's skins, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.’ And, ‘There will be schisms and heresies.’ And, ‘Beware of false prophets, who will come to you clothed outwardly in sheep's skins, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.’ And, ‘Many false Christs and false apostles will arise, and will lead astray many of the faithful.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:156 · 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 24:5 · quotation, medium confidence
Matt 7:15 · quotation, high confidence
1 Cor 11:18 · allusion, medium confidence
1 Cor 11:19 · allusion, medium confidence
Matt 24:11 · quotation, medium confidence
Matt 24:24 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

“There will be schisms and heresies” is not found in the Gospels as a saying of Jesus; compare 1 Cor 11:18–19. Such sayings are sometimes counted among the agrapha (sayings of Jesus outside the canonical Gospels).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip (word split)): ψευδοαπόστο λοι → ψευδοαπόστολοι.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 35.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/35/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 35.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/35/3/).