Dialogue with Trypho 67.11

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Justin notes Trypho's own inconsistency.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:324

Καὶ τούτῳ συνθέσθαι, ἔφη, ἐκ παντὸς τοὺς φιλαλήθεις, ἀλλὰ μὴ φιλέριδας, ἀναγκαῖον. Κἀγώ· Οὐκ οἶδʼ ὅπως, ἔφην, φιλερίστους τινὰς ἀποκαλῶν, αὐτὸς πολλάκις ἐν τούτῳ ἐφάνης τῷ ἔργῳ ὤν, ἀντειπὼν πολλάκις οἷς συνετέθης.

English · Claude translation

“Those who love the truth and not strife,” he said, “must certainly agree to this too.” And I said, “I do not know how, calling some people contentious, you yourself have often shown yourself to be engaged in that very thing, often contradicting what you had agreed to.”

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Source: Archambault 1:324 · 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)

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Justin, Dial. 67.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/67/11/).

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Justin, Dial. 67.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/67/11/).

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