Dialogue with Trypho 38.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Trypho protests that Justin's claims about the crucified Jesus are blasphemous.

Greek text · Archambault 1:168–170

Καὶ ὁ Τρύφων εἶπεν· Ὦ ἄνθρωπε, καλὸν ἦν πεισθέντας ἡμᾶς τοῖς διδασκάλοις, νομοθετήσασι μηδενὶ ἐξ ὑμῶν ὁμιλεῖν, μηδέ σοι τούτων κοινωνῆσαι τῶν λόγων· βλάσφημα γὰρ πολλὰ λέγεις, τὸν σταυρωθέντα τοῦτον ἀξιῶν πείθειν ἡμᾶς γεγενῆσθαι μετὰ Μωσέως καὶ Ἀαρὼν καὶ λελαληκέναι αὐτοῖς ἐν στύλῳ νεφέλης, εἶτα ἄνθρωπον γενόμενον σταυρωθῆναι, καὶ ἀναβεβηκέναι εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, καὶ πάλιν παραγίνεσθαι ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ προσκυνητὸν εἶναι.

English · Claude translation

And Trypho said, “Sir, it would have been good for us to obey our teachers, who laid down a law that we should converse with none of you, and not to have taken part in these discussions with you. For you say many blasphemous things, thinking to persuade us that this crucified man was with Moses and Aaron and spoke to them in the pillar of cloud, then became man and was crucified, and went up into heaven, and comes again upon the earth, and is to be worshiped.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:168–170 · 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

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 38.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/38/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 38.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/38/1/).