Dialogue with Trypho 35.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christians pray for their enemies, that they may be saved at Christ's return.

Greek text · Archambault 1:160

Διὸ καὶ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων ἀνθρώπων τῶν ἐχθραινόντων ἡμῖν εὐχόμεθα, ἵνα μεταγνόντες σὺν ἡμῖν μὴ βλασφημῆτε τὸν διά τε τῶν ἔργων καὶ τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ καὶ νῦν γινομένων δυνάμεων καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν τῆς διδαχῆς λόγων καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν προφητευθεισῶν εἰς αὐτὸν προφητειῶν ἄμωμον καὶ ἀνέγκλητον κατὰ πάντα Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν, ἀλλὰ πιστεύσαντες εἰς αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ πάλιν γενησομένῃ ἐνδόξῳ αὐτοῦ παρουσίᾳ σωθῆτε καὶ μὴ καταδικασθῆτε εἰς τὸ πῦρ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

“Therefore we pray for you and for all other men who are hostile to us, that you may repent with us and not blaspheme Christ Jesus, who is blameless and irreproachable in all things, as shown by his works and the mighty works done even now by his name, and by the words of his teaching, and by the prophecies spoken about him; but that, believing in him, you may be saved at his glorious coming, which will take place again, and not be condemned by him to the fire.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:160 · 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)

Scripture

Matt 5:44 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Prayer, Eschatology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 35.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/35/8/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 35.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/35/8/).