Dialogue with Trypho 79.1

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

Summary: Trypho objects that fallen angels are a blasphemous idea.

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Greek text · Archambault 2:24–26

Καὶ ὁ Τρύφων, ὑπαγανακτῶν μέν, αἰδούμενος δὲ τὰς γραφάς, ὡς ἐδηλοῦτο ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, εἶπε πρός με· Τὰ μὲν τοῦ θεοῦ ἅγιά ἐστιν, αἱ δὲ ὑμέτεραι ἐξηγήσεις τετεχνασμέναι εἰσίν, ὡς φαίνεται καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐξηγημένων ὑπὸ σοῦ, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ βλάσφημοι· ἀγγέλους γὰρ πονηρευσαμένους καὶ ἀποστάντας τοῦ θεοῦ λέγεις.

English · Claude translation

And Trypho, somewhat annoyed but respecting the Scriptures, as was plain from his face, said to me, “The things of God are holy, but your interpretations are contrived, as is plain from those you have given, or rather blasphemous; for you say that angels acted wickedly and revolted from God.”

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Source: Archambault 2:24–26 · 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)

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Justin, Dial. 79.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/79/1/).

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Justin, Dial. 79.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/79/1/).

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