Dialogue with Trypho 47.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:212

Ἡ γὰρ χρηστότης καὶ ἡ φιλανθρωπία τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τὸ ἄμετρον τοῦ πλούτου αὐτοῦ τὸν μετανοοῦντα ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων, καὶ ὡς διʼ Ἰεζεκιὴλ μηνύει, ὡς δίκαιον ἀναμάρτητον ἔχει· καὶ τὸν ἀπὸ εὐσεβείας ἢ δικαιοπραξίας μετατιθέμενον ἐπὶ ἀδικίαν καὶ ἀθεότητα ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸν καὶ ἄδικον καὶ ἀσεβῆ ἐπίσταται. Διὸ καὶ ὁ ἡμέτερος κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς εἶπεν· Ἐν οἷς ἂν ὑμᾶς καταλάβω, ἐν τούτοις καὶ κρινῶ.

English · Claude translation

“For the goodness and kindness of God and the immeasurable riches of his grace regard the one who repents of his sins, as he indicates through Ezekiel, as righteous and sinless; and the one who turns from piety or righteous conduct to unrighteousness and godlessness he knows as a sinner and unrighteous and ungodly. That is why our Lord Jesus Christ said, ‘In whatever I find you, in that I will also judge you.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:212 · 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 33:12 · allusion, high confidence
Ezek 33:20 · allusion, high confidence
Ezek 18:21 · allusion, medium confidence
Rom 2:4 · echo, medium confidence
Titus 3:4 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

“In whatever I find you, in that I will also judge you”: a saying of Jesus not found in the Gospels (an agraphon); compare Ezek 33:20.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): Ἐν οἶς ἂν → Ἐν οἷς ἂν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 47.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/47/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 47.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/47/5/).