Dialogue with Trypho 35.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:158–160

Καὶ Χριστιανοὺς ἑαυτοὺς λέγουσιν, ὃν τρόπον οἱ ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπιγράφουσι τοῖς χειροποιήτοις, καὶ ἀνόμοις καὶ ἀθέοις τελεταῖς κοινωνοῦσι. Καί εἰσιν αὐτῶν οἱ μέν τινες καλούμενοι Μαρκιανοί, οἱ δὲ Οὐαλεντινιανοί, οἱ δὲ Βασιλειδιανοί, οἱ δὲ Σατορνιλιανοί, καὶ ἄλλοι ἄλλῳ ὀνόματι, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀρχηγέτου τῆς γνώμης ἕκαστος ὀνομαζόμενος, ὃν τρόπον καὶ ἕκαστος τῶν φιλοσοφεῖν νομιζόντων, ὡς ἐν ἀρχῇ προεῖπον, ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ λόγου τὸ ὄνομα ἧς φιλοσοφεῖ φιλοσοφίας ἡγεῖται φέρειν.

English · Claude translation

“And they call themselves Christians, in the same way as those among the nations inscribe the name of God on things made by hands, and take part in lawless and godless rites. And some of them are called Marcianites, others Valentinians, others Basilidians, others Saturnilians, and others by other names, each named after the originator of the opinion, just as each of those who think they practice philosophy, as I said at the beginning, thinks he bears the name of the philosophy he practices from the father of the teaching.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:158–160 · 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)

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

“Marcianites” (Μαρκιανοί): the followers of Marcion. Valentinus, Basilides, and Saturninus were Gnostic teachers of the second century.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 35.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/35/6/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 35.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/35/6/).