Dialogue with Trypho 44.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:194–196

Οὐδεὶς γὰρ οὐδὲν ἐκείνων οὐδαμόθεν λαβεῖν ἔχει πλὴν οἱ τῇ γνώμῃ ἐξομοιωθέντες τῇ πίστει τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ ἐπιγνόντες τὰ μυστήρια πάντα, λέγω δὲ ὅτι τίς μὲν ἐντολὴ εἰς θεοσέβειαν καὶ δικαιοπραξίαν διετέτακτο, τίς δὲ ἐντολὴ καὶ πρᾶξις ὁμοίως εἴρητο ἢ εἰς μυστήριον τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἢ διὰ τὸ σκληροκάρδιον τοῦ λαοῦ ὑμῶν. Καὶ ὅτι τοῦτό ἐστιν, ἐν τῷ Ἰεζεκιὴλ περὶ τούτου ἀποφαινόμενος ὁ θεὸς εἶπεν· Ἐὰν Νῶε καὶ Ἰακὼβ καὶ Δανιὴλ ἐξαιτήσωνται ἢ υἱοὺς ἢ θυγατέρας, οὐ μὴ δοθήσεται αὐτοῖς.

English · Claude translation

“For no one can obtain anything of those things from anywhere, except those who have become like Abraham's faith in mind, and have recognized all the mysteries, I mean that one commandment was ordained for piety and righteous conduct, while another commandment and practice was spoken either as a mystery of Christ or because of the hardness of heart of your people. And that this is so, God declared in Ezekiel concerning it: ‘If Noah and Jacob and Daniel ask for sons or daughters, it shall not be given them.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:194–196 · 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

Ezek 14:14 · quotation, high confidence
Ezek 14:16 · quotation, high confidence
Ezek 14:20 · quotation, high confidence
Rom 4:16 · echo, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Justin's threefold division of the law: moral, typological, and given because of hardness of heart.
Ezekiel names Job, not Jacob; Justin's text reads Jacob.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): τὶς μὲν ἐντολὴ → τίς μὲν ἐντολὴ; τὶς δὲ ἐντολὴ → τίς δὲ ἐντολὴ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 44.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/44/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 44.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/44/2/).