Dialogue with Trypho 78.10 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:24

Ἁμαρτωλὸν δὲ καὶ ἄδικον οὖσαν ἐν παραβολῇ τὴν δύναμιν ἐκείνην καλῶς Σαμάρειαν καλεῖ. Ὅτι δὲ Δαμασκὸς τῆς ἀρραβικῆς γῆς ἦν καὶ ἔστιν, εἰ καὶ νῦν προσνενέμηται τῇ Συροφοινίκῃ λεγομένῃ, οὐδʼ ὑμῶν τινες ἀρνήσασθαι δύνανται. Ὥστε καλὸν ἂν εἴη ὑμᾶς, ὦ ἄνδρες, ἃ μὴ νενοήκατε, παρὰ τῶν λαβόντων χάριν ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν τῶν Χριστιανῶν μανθάνειν, ἀλλὰ μὴ κατὰ πάντα ἀγωνίζεσθαι τὰ ὑμέτερα διδάγματα κρατύνειν, ἀτιμάζοντας τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ.

English · Claude translation

“And it rightly calls that power, being sinful and unjust, Samaria in a parable. And that Damascus was and is of the Arabian land, even if it has now been assigned to what is called Syrophoenicia, not even any of you can deny. So it would be good for you, sirs, to learn what you have not understood from us Christians, who have received grace from God, and not to strive in every way to strengthen your own teachings, dishonoring those of God.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:24 · 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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip (stray letter)): ἀρνήσασθται → ἀρνήσασθαι.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 78.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/78/10/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 78.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/78/10/).