Dialogue with Trypho 46.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Even so, Israel fell into idolatry.

Greek text · Archambault 1:206

Οὐ δὲ μικρὰν μνήμην ἔχετε τοῦ θεοσεβεῖν, καὶ οὐδʼ οὕτως ἐπείσθητε μὴ εἰδωλολατρεῖν, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ Ἡλίου ὀνομάζων τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν μὴ καμψάντων γόνυ τῇ Βάαλ, ἑπτακισχιλίους τὸν ἀριθμὸν ὄντας εἶπε, καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἡσαίᾳ καὶ τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν θυσίαν πεποιηκέναι τοῖς εἰδώλοις ἐλέγχει ὑμᾶς.

English · Claude translation

“And you have not a little memory of piety, and not even so were you persuaded not to worship idols; but in the days of Elijah, naming the number of those who had not bowed the knee to Baal, he said they were seven thousand; and in Isaiah he reproves you for having sacrificed even your children to idols.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:206 · 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

1 Kgs 19:18 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 57:5 · allusion, high confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 46.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/46/6/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 46.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/46/6/).