Dialogue with Trypho 68.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The Jewish teachers deny inconvenient texts or apply them to other men.

Greek text · Archambault 1:330–332

Ἃ γὰρ ἂν διαρρήδην ἐν ταῖς γραφαῖς φαίνονται ἐλέγχοντα αὐτῶν τὴν ἀνόητον καὶ φίλαυτον γνώμην, ταῦτα τολμῶσι λέγειν μὴ οὕτω γεγράφθαι· ἃ δʼ ἂν καὶ ἕλκειν πρὸς ἃς νομίζουσι δύνασθαι ἁρμόζειν πράξεις ἀνθρωπείους, ταῦτα οὐκ εἰς τοῦτον τὸν ἡμέτερον Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν εἰρῆσθαι λέγουσιν, ἀλλʼ εἰς ὃν αὐτοὶ ἐξηγεῖσθαι ἐπιχειροῦσιν. Ὁποῖον καὶ τὴν γραφὴν ταύτην, περὶ ἧς ἡ νῦν ὁμιλία ἐστίν, ἐδίδαξαν ὑμᾶς λέγοντες εἰς Ἐζεκίαν αὐτὴν εἰρῆσθαι, ὅπερ, ὡς ὑπεσχόμην, ἀποδείξω ψεύδεσθαι αὐτούς.

English · Claude translation

“For whatever in the Scriptures plainly refutes their senseless and selfish opinion, these they dare to say was not so written; and whatever they think they can draw and fit to human actions, these they say were spoken not of this our Jesus Christ, but of whomever they undertake to explain. As they taught you to say about this Scripture, which is the subject of our present discussion, that it was spoken of Hezekiah; which, as I promised, I will prove to be false.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:330–332 · 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)

Topics

Scripture and canon

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 68.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/68/8/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 68.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/68/8/).