Dialogue with Trypho 48.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:214–216

Καὶ γάρ εἰσί τινες, ὦ φίλοι, ἔλεγον, ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑμετέρου γένους ὁμολογοῦντες αὐτὸν Χριστὸν εἶναι, ἄνθρωπον δὲ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων γενόμενον ἀποφαινόμενοι· οἷς οὐ συντίθεμαι, οὐδʼ ἂν πλεῖστοι ταὐτά μοι δοξάσαντες εἴποιεν, ἐπειδὴ οὐκ ἀνθρωπείοις διδάγμασι κεκελεύσμεθα ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ πείθεσθαι, ἀλλὰ τοῖς διὰ τῶν μακαρίων προφητῶν κηρυχθεῖσι καὶ διʼ αὐτοῦ διδαχθεῖσι.

English · Claude translation

“For there are some, friends,” I said, “of your race, who confess that he is the Christ, but declare that he was a man born of men; with whom I do not agree, nor would most who hold the same opinions as I say so; since we have been commanded by Christ himself to obey not human teachings, but those proclaimed through the blessed prophets and taught by him.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:214–216 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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 15:9 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

These may be the groups later called Ebionites.
“Of your race” (ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑμετέρου γένους) is the reading of the manuscript; many editors read “of our race” (ἡμετέρου), i.e. Christians.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 48.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/48/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 48.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/48/4/).