Dialogue with Trypho 73.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Justin sets the disputed passages aside; the acknowledged Scriptures suffice.

Greek text · Archambault 1:354–356

Ναί, ἔφην, ἀπίστῳ ἔοικε· φοβερώτερον γάρ ἐστι τῆς μοσχοποιΐας, ἣν ἐποίησαν ἐπὶ γῆς μάννα πεπλησμένοι, καὶ τοῦ τὰ τέκνα θύειν τοῖς δαιμονίοις, ἢ τοῦ αὐτοὺς τοὺς προφήτας ἀνῃρηκέναι. Ἀλλὰ δή, ἔφην, μοι νομίζεσθε μηδὲ ἀκηκοέναι ἃς εἶπον περικεκοφέναι αὐτοὺς γραφάς. Ὑπὲρ αὐταρκείας γὰρ αἱ τοσαῦται προανιστορημέναι εἰσὶν εἰς ἀπόδειξιν τῶν ζητηθέντων μετὰ τῶν λεχθήσεσθαι μελλόντων παρʼ ὑμῖν παραπεφυλαγμένων.

English · Claude translation

“Yes,” I said, “it seems incredible; for it is more terrible than the making of the calf, which they made when filled with manna on the earth, and than sacrificing their children to demons, or than killing the prophets themselves. But indeed,” I said, “you seem to me not even to have heard the Scriptures which I said they cut out. For so many have been recounted before, more than enough to prove what was asked, together with those still to be quoted which have been preserved among you.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:354–356 · 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)

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 73.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/73/6/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 73.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/73/6/).