Dialogue with Trypho 68.9 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:332

Ἃς δʼ ἂν λέγωμεν αὐτοῖς γραφάς, αἳ διαρρήδην τὸν Χριστὸν καὶ παθητὸν καὶ προσκυνητὸν καὶ θεὸν ἀποδεικνύουσιν, ἃς καὶ προανιστόρησα ὑμῖν, ταύτας εἰς Χριστὸν μὲν εἰρῆσθαι ἀναγκαζόμενοι συντίθενται, τοῦτον δὲ μὴ εἶναι τὸν Χριστὸν τολμῶσι λέγειν, ἐλεύσεσθαι δὲ καὶ παθεῖν καὶ βασιλεῦσαι καὶ προσκυνητὸν γενέσθαι θεὸν ὁμολογοῦσιν· ὅπερ γελοῖον καὶ ἀνόητον ὂν ὁμοίως ἀποδείξω. Ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ κατεπείγει με πρότερον πρὸς τὰ ὑπὸ σοῦ ἐν γελοίῳ τρόπῳ εἰρημένα ἀποκρίνασθαι, πρὸς ταῦτα τὰς ἀποκρίσεις ποιήσομαι, καὶ πρὸς τὰ ἐπίλοιπα ἐς ὕστερον τὰς ἀποδείξεις δώσω.

English · Claude translation

“And the Scriptures we quote to them, which plainly prove that the Christ is both to suffer and to be worshiped and is God, which I have also recounted to you, these they are compelled to agree were spoken of Christ, but they dare to say that this man is not the Christ, while admitting that he will come and suffer and reign and become God worthy of worship; which I will likewise prove to be ridiculous and foolish. But since I am pressed first to answer what you said in a mocking manner, I will make my answers to that, and give the proofs of the rest later.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:332 · 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

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): γραφάς, αἵ διαρρήδην → γραφάς, αἳ διαρρήδην.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 68.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/68/9/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 68.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/68/9/).