Dialogue with Trypho 9.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Justin forgives Trypho's words and offers to prove his faith from the Scriptures.

Greek text · Archambault 1:44

Συγγνώμη σοι, ἔφην, ὦ ἄνθρωπε, καὶ ἀφεθείη σοι· οὐ γὰρ οἶδας ὃ λέγεις, ἀλλὰ πειθόμενος τοῖς διδασκάλοις, οἳ οὐ συνίασι τὰς γραφάς, καὶ ἀπομαντευόμενος λέγεις ὅ τι ἄν σοι ἐπὶ θυμὸν ἔλθοι. Εἰ δὲ βούλοιο τούτου πέρι δέξασθαι λόγον, ὡς οὐ πεπλανήμεθα οὐδὲ παυσόμεθα ὁμολογοῦντες τοῦτον, κἂν τὰ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἡμῖν ἐπιφέρωνται ὀνείδη, κἂν ὁ δεινότατος ἀπειπεῖν ἀναγκάζῃ τύραννος· παρεστῶτι γὰρ δείξω ὅτι οὐ κενοῖς ἐπιστεύσαμεν μύθοις οὐδὲ ἀναποδείκτοις λόγοις, ἀλλὰ μεστοῖς πνεύματος θείου καὶ δυνάμει βρύουσι καὶ τεθηλόσι χάριτι.

English · Claude translation

“May you be pardoned and forgiven, sir,” I said; “for you do not know what you are saying, but, trusting teachers who do not understand the Scriptures, you speak by guesswork whatever comes into your head. But if you would receive an account of this, that we have not been deceived and will not cease confessing him, even if reproaches from men are brought against us, even if the most terrible tyrant forces us to deny him, I will show you, if you stay, that we have not believed empty myths or unproven words, but words full of the divine Spirit, and teeming with power, and flourishing with grace.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:44 · 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)

Scripture

Luke 23:34 · echo, medium confidence
2 Pet 1:16 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/9/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/9/1/).