Dialogue with Trypho 44.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Descent from Abraham does not guarantee the promised blessings.

Greek text · Archambault 1:194

Οὕτω γὰρ κατὰ πάντα ἀθῷος ὑμῶν χάριν εὑρεθήσομαι, εἰ ἀποδείξεις ποιούμενος ἀγωνίζομαι ὑμᾶς πεισθῆναι· ἐὰν δὲ ὑμεῖς, σκληροκάρδιοι μένοντες ἢ ἀσθενεῖς τὴν γνώμην διὰ τὸν ἀφωρισμένον τοῖς Χριστιανοῖς θάνατον, τῷ ἀληθεῖ συντίθεσθαι μὴ βούλησθε, ἑαυτοῖς αἴτιοι φανήσεσθε. Καὶ ἐξαπατᾶτε ἑαυτούς, ὑπονοοῦντες διὰ τὸ εἶναι τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ κατὰ σάρκα σπέρμα πάντως κληρονομήσειν τὰ κατηγγελμένα παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ δοθήσεσθαι ἀγαθά.

English · Claude translation

“For in this way I shall be found guiltless in every respect toward you, if I strive by making proofs to persuade you; but if you, remaining hard of heart or weak in resolve because of the death decreed for Christians, will not assent to the truth, you will appear to be the cause of your own ruin. And you deceive yourselves, supposing that, because you are the seed of Abraham according to the flesh, you will certainly inherit the good things announced by God as to be given through Christ.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:194 · 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 3:9 · echo, high confidence
John 8:33 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Persecution

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 44.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/44/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 44.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/44/1/).