Sophia Scriptura

Dialogue with Trypho 80.3

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

Summary: Justin will write up the whole discussion.

Greek text · Archambault 2:32

Τοὺς γὰρ λεγομένους μὲν Χριστιανούς, ὄντας δὲ ἀθέους καὶ ἀσεβεῖς αἱρεσιώτας, ὅτι κατὰ πάντα βλάσφημα καὶ ἄθεα καὶ ἀνόητα διδάσκουσιν, ἐδήλωσά σοι. Ὅτι δʼ οὐκ ἐφʼ ὑμῶν μόνων τοῦτο λέγειν με ἐπίστασθε, τῶν γεγενημένων ἡμῖν λόγων ἁπάντων, ὡς δύναμίς μου, σύνταξιν ποιήσομαι, ἐν οἷς καὶ τοῦτο ὁμολογοῦντά με, ὃ καὶ πρὸς ὑμᾶς ὁμολογῶ, ἐγγράψω. Οὐ γὰρ ἀνθρώποις μᾶλλον ἢ ἀνθρωπίνοις διδάγμασιν αἱροῦμαι ἀκολουθεῖν, ἀλλὰ θεῷ καὶ τοῖς παρʼ ἐκείνου διδάγμασιν.

English · Claude translation

“For I showed you that those who are called Christians, but are godless and impious heretics, teach things that are in every way blasphemous and godless and foolish. And so that you may know that I do not say this before you alone, I will make, as far as I can, a written account of all the discussions we have had, in which I will record myself confessing this, which I also confess to you. For I choose to follow not men or human teachings, but God and the teachings from him.

About this passage

Source
Archambault 2:32 · 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
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Justin announces the writing of this Dialogue.

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Justin, Dial. 80.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/80/3/).

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Justin, Dial. 80.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/80/3/).

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