Dialogue with Trypho 56.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:250

Ἔστι δὲ ταῦτα· Ἰδοῦσα δὲ Σάρρα τὸν υἱὸν Ἄγαρ, τῆς παιδίσκης τῆς Αἰγυπτίας, ὃς ἐγένετο τῷ Ἀβραάμ, παίζοντα μετὰ Ἰσαάκ, τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτῆς, εἶπε τῷ Ἀβραάμ· Ἔκβαλε τὴν παιδίσκην ταύτην καὶ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆς· οὐ γὰρ κληρονομήσει ὁ υἱὸς τῆς παιδίσκης ταύτης μετὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ μου Ἰσαάκ. Σκληρὸν δὲ ἐφάνη τὸ ῥῆμα σφόδρα ἐναντίον Ἀβραὰμ περὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ. Εἶπε δὲ ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἀβραάμ· Μὴ σκληρὸν ἔστω ἐναντίον σου περὶ τοῦ παιδίου καὶ περὶ τῆς παιδίσκης· πάντα ὅσα ἂν εἴπῃ σοι Σάρρα, ἄκουε τῆς φωνῆς αὐτῆς, ὅτι ἐν Ἰσαὰκ κληθήσεταί σοι σπέρμα.

English · Claude translation

“It is this: ‘And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian maidservant, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with Isaac her son, and she said to Abraham: Cast out this maidservant and her son; for the son of this maidservant shall not inherit with my son Isaac. And the word seemed very hard in the eyes of Abraham because of his son. But God said to Abraham: Let it not be hard in your eyes because of the child and the maidservant; in all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for in Isaac shall your seed be called.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:250 · 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 21:9 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 21:10 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 21:11 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 21:12 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray full stop in the digital text): τῷ Ἀβραάμ., παίζοντα → τῷ Ἀβραάμ, παίζοντα.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 56.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/7/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 56.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/7/).