Dialogue with Trypho 46.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Justin asks whether the patriarchs and matriarchs, who kept none of these laws, will be saved.

Greek text · Archambault 1:204

Κἀγὼ ἔφην· Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακὼβ καὶ Νῶε καὶ Ἰώβ, καὶ εἴ τινες ἄλλοι γεγόνασι πρὸ τούτων ἢ μετὰ τούτους ὁμοίως δίκαιοι, λέγω δὲ καὶ Σάρραν τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ Ἀβραάμ, καὶ Ῥεβέκκαν τὴν τοῦ Ἰσαάκ, καὶ Ῥαχὴλ τὴν τοῦ Ἰακώβ, καὶ Λείαν, καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς ἄλλας τὰς τοιαύτας μέχρι τῆς Μωσέως, τοῦ πιστοῦ θεράποντος, μητρός, μηδὲν τούτων φυλάξαντες, εἰ δοκοῦσιν ὑμῖν σωθήσεσθαι; Καὶ ὁ Τρύφων ἀπεκρίνατο· Οὐ περιετέτμητο Ἀβραὰμ καὶ οἱ μετʼ αὐτόν;

English · Claude translation

And I said, “Do you think that Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Noah and Job, and any others who were likewise righteous before or after them, and I mean also Sarah the wife of Abraham, and Rebecca the wife of Isaac, and Rachel the wife of Jacob, and Leah, and all the other such women until the mother of Moses, the faithful servant, who kept none of these things, will be saved?” And Trypho answered, “Were not Abraham and those after him circumcised?”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:204 · 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

Num 12:7 · allusion, medium confidence
Heb 3:5 · echo, medium confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 46.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/46/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 46.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/46/3/).