Dialogue with Trypho 71.1

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

Summary: Justin distrusts the Jewish teachers' new translations.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:344

Ἀλλʼ οὐχὶ τοῖς διδασκάλοις ὑμῶν πείθομαι, μὴ συντεθειμένοις καλῶς ἐξηγεῖσθαι τὰ ὑπὸ τῶν παρὰ Πτολεμαίῳ τῷ Αἰγυπτίων γενομένῳ βασιλεῖ ἑβδομήκοντα πρεσβυτέρων, ἀλλʼ αὐτοὶ ἐξηγεῖσθαι πειρῶνται.

English · Claude translation

“But I do not trust your teachers, who do not agree that the translation made by the seventy elders who were with Ptolemy, king of the Egyptians, is well made, but attempt to translate for themselves.

About this passage

Source: Archambault 1:344 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

Justin refers to newer Jewish Greek versions such as Aquila's (ca. 130).

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Justin, Dial. 71.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/71/1/).

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Justin, Dial. 71.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/71/1/).

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