Dialogue with Trypho 56.21 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:260–262

Ἰδοὺ ἡ πόλις αὕτη ἐγγὺς τοῦ καταφυγεῖν ἐστιν ἐκεῖ μικρά· ἐκεῖ σωθήσομαι, ὡς μικρά ἐστι, καὶ ζήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου. Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· Ἰδοὺ ἐθαύμασά σου τὸ πρόσωπον καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ ῥήματι τούτῳ τοῦ μὴ καταστρέψαι τὴν πόλιν περὶ ἧς ἐλάλησας. Σπεῦσον τοῦ σωθῆναι ἐκεῖ· οὐ γὰρ δυνήσομαι ποιῆσαι πρᾶγμα ἕως τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν σε ἐκεῖ. Διὰ τοῦτο ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα τῆς πόλεως Σηγώρ. Ὁ ἥλιος ἐξῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ Λὼτ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς Σηγώρ. Καὶ ὁ κύριος ἔβρεξεν εἰς Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα θεῖον καὶ πῦρ παρὰ κυρίου ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ κατέστρεψε τὰς πόλεις ταύτας καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν περίοικον.

English · Claude translation

“‘Behold, this city is near to flee to, and it is small; there I shall be saved, since it is small, and my soul shall live. And he said to him: Behold, I have regarded your face in this matter too, not to overthrow the city of which you have spoken. Hasten to escape there; for I cannot do anything until you come there. Therefore he called the name of the city Zoar. The sun rose over the earth, and Lot entered Zoar. And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven, and overthrew these cities and all the region around.’”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:260–262 · 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

Gen 19:20 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 19:21 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 19:22 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 19:23 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 19:24 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 19:25 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): περὶ ἦς ἐλάλησας → περὶ ἧς ἐλάλησας.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 56.21 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/21/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 56.21 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/21/).