Dialogue with Trypho 64.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Justin persists out of fear of God's judgment, not judging which Jews may be saved.

Greek text · Archambault 1:302

Κἀγὼ πρὸς ταῦτα εἶπον· Ὦ Τρύφων, εἰ ὁμοίως ὑμῖν φιλέριστος καὶ κενὸς ὑπῆρχον, οὐκ ἂν ἔτι προσέμενον κοινωνῶν ὑμῖν τῶν λόγων, οὐ συνιέναι τὰ λεγόμενα παρασκευαζομένοις, ἀλλά τι λέγειν μόνον θήγουσιν ἑαυτούς· νῦν δέ, ἐπεὶ κρίσιν θεοῦ δέδοικα, οὐ φθάνω ἀποφαίνεσθαι περὶ οὐδενὸς τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ γένους ὑμῶν, εἰ μήτι ἐστὶν ἀπὸ τῶν κατὰ χάριν τὴν ἀπὸ κυρίου σαβαὼθ σωθῆναι δυναμένων. Διὸ κἂν ὑμεῖς πονηρεύησθε, προσμενῶ πρὸς ὁτιοῦν προβαλεῖσθε καὶ ἀντιλέγετε ἀποκρινόμενος· καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ πρὸς πάντας ἁπλῶς τοὺς ἐκ παντὸς γένους ἀνθρώπων, συζητεῖν ἢ πυνθάνεσθαί μου περὶ τούτων βουλομένους πράττω.

English · Claude translation

And I said to this, “Trypho, if I were contentious and empty like you, I would no longer remain sharing the discussion with you, since you are prepared not to understand what is said, but only sharpen yourselves to say something. But now, since I fear the judgment of God, I do not hasten to declare about any of your race that he is not one of those who can be saved by the grace of the Lord of hosts. Therefore, even if you act wickedly, I will remain to answer whatever you put forward or object; and I do the same with all men of every race who wish to discuss or inquire of me about these things.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:302 · 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

Rom 11:5 · echo, medium confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 64.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/64/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 64.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/64/2/).