Dialogue with Trypho 43.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christians receive spiritual circumcision through baptism.

Greek text · Archambault 1:190

Καὶ ἡμεῖς, οἱ διὰ τούτου προσχωρήσαντες τῷ θεῷ, οὐ ταύτην τὴν κατὰ σάρκα παρελάβομεν περιτομήν, ἀλλὰ πνευματικήν, ἣν Ἐνὼχ καὶ οἱ ὅμοιοι ἐφύλαξαν· ἡμεῖς δὲ διὰ τοῦ βαπτίσματος αὐτήν, ἐπειδὴ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἐγεγόνειμεν, διὰ τὸ ἔλεος τὸ παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐλάβομεν, καὶ πᾶσιν ἐφετὸν ὁμοίως λαμβάνειν.

English · Claude translation

“And we, who have come to God through him, have received not this circumcision according to the flesh, but the spiritual one, which Enoch and those like him kept; and we received it through baptism, since we had become sinners, by the mercy that is from God; and it is open to all alike to receive it.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:190 · 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

Col 2:11 · echo, high confidence
Col 2:12 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Baptism

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 43.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/43/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 43.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/43/2/).