Dialogue with Trypho 39.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Fear of persecution may keep Jews from confessing Christ.

Greek text · Archambault 1:176

Ὑμεῖς δὲ ἴσως καὶ διὰ τοῦτο διστάζετε ὁμολογῆσαι ὅτι οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός, ὡς αἱ γραφαὶ ἀποδεικνύουσι καὶ τὰ φαινόμενα καὶ τὰ γινόμενα ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ, ἵνα μὴ διώκησθε ὑπὸ τῶν ἀρχόντων, οἳ οὐ παύσονται ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ πονηροῦ καὶ πλάνου πνεύματος, τοῦ ὄφεως, ἐνεργείας θανατοῦντες καὶ διώκοντες τοὺς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Χριστοῦ ὁμολογοῦντας, ἕως πάλιν παρῇ καὶ καταλύσῃ πάντας καὶ τὸ κατʼ ἀξίαν ἑκάστῳ προσνείμῃ.

English · Claude translation

“But perhaps you hesitate to confess that this is the Christ, as the Scriptures prove and the things that appear and are done in his name, for this reason too: that you may not be persecuted by the rulers, who, by the working of the wicked and deceitful spirit, the serpent, will not cease putting to death and persecuting those who confess the name of Christ, until he comes again and destroys them all and gives to each what he deserves.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:176 · 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

Rev 12:9 · echo, medium confidence
Matt 16:27 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Persecution, Eschatology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 39.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/39/6/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 39.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/39/6/).