Dialogue with Trypho 58.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:266–268

Κἀγὼ εἶπον· Γραφὰς ὑμῖν ἀνιστορεῖν μέλλω, οὐ κατασκευὴν λόγων ἐν μόνῃ τέχνῃ ἐπιδείκνυσθαι σπεύδω· οὐδὲ γὰρ δύναμις ἐμοὶ τοιαύτη τίς ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ χάρις παρὰ θεοῦ μόνη εἰς τὸ συνιέναι τὰς γραφὰς αὐτοῦ ἐδόθη μοι, ἧς χάριτος καὶ πάντας κοινωνοὺς ἀμισθωτὶ καὶ ἀφθόνως παρακαλῶ γίνεσθαι, ὅπως μὴ καὶ τούτου χάριν κρίσιν ὀφλήσω ἐν ᾗπερ μέλλει κρίσει διὰ τοῦ κυρίου μου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ὁ ποιητὴς τῶν ὅλων θεὸς ποιεῖσθαι.

English · Claude translation

And I said, “I am about to recount Scriptures to you; I am not eager to display constructions of words by mere art; for I have no such power, but grace alone has been given me from God to understand his Scriptures, of which grace I urge all to become partakers freely and ungrudgingly, so that I may not on this account incur condemnation in the judgment which God, the Maker of all things, is to hold through my Lord Jesus Christ.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:266–268 · 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

Matt 10:8 · echo, medium confidence
Acts 17:31 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

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

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 58.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/58/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 58.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/58/1/).