Dialogue with Trypho 69.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:334–336

Ἐπεὶ δὲ οὐκ ἀνιστόρησα πρὸς ὑμᾶς τοιαύτην γραφήν, ἣ σημαίνει τὸν Χριστὸν ταῦτα ποιήσειν, καὶ μιᾶς τινὸς ἀναγκαίως ἐπιμνησθήσομαι, ἐξ ἧς καὶ συνεῖναι ὑμῖν δυνατόν, πῶς καὶ τοῖς ἐρήμοις γνώσεως θεοῦ, λέγω δὲ τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, οἳ καὶ ὀφθαλμοὺς ἔχοντες οὐχ ἑώρων οὐδὲ καρδίαν ἔχοντες συνίεσαν, τὰ ἐξ ὕλης κατασκευάσματα προσκυνοῦντες, ὁ λόγος προέλεγεν ἀρνηθῆναι αὐτὰ καὶ ἐλπίζειν ἐπὶ τοῦτον τὸν Χριστόν.

English · Claude translation

“But since I have not recounted to you such a Scripture, which indicates that Christ would do these things, I will necessarily mention one, from which you can also understand how the word foretold that those who were destitute of the knowledge of God, I mean the nations, who having eyes did not see and having a heart did not understand, worshiping the things made of matter, would renounce them and hope in this Christ.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:334–336 · 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

Jer 5:21 · echo, medium confidence
Mark 8:18 · echo, medium confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): τά ἐξ ὕλης → τὰ ἐξ ὕλης.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 69.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/69/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 69.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/69/4/).