Dialogue with Trypho 92.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Grace is needed to understand the prophets.

Greek text · Archambault 2:90

Εἰ οὖν τις μὴ μετὰ μεγάλης χάριτος τῆς παρὰ θεοῦ λάβοι νοῆσαι τὰ εἰρημένα καὶ γεγενημένα ὑπὸ τῶν προφητῶν, οὐδὲν αὐτὸν ὀνήσει τὸ τὰς ῥήσεις δοκεῖν λέγειν ἢ τὰ γεγενημένα, εἰ μὴ λόγον ἔχει καὶ περὶ αὐτῶν ἀποδιδόναι. Ἀλλὰ μήτι γε καὶ εὐκαταφρόνητα δόξει τοῖς πολλοῖς ὑπὸ τῶν μὴ νοούντων αὐτὰ λεγόμενα;

English · Claude translation

“If, then, one does not receive with great grace from God to understand what was said and done by the prophets, it will profit him nothing to seem to repeat the words or the events, if he cannot also give an account of them. And will they not seem contemptible to most people, when spoken by those who do not understand them?

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:90 · 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

Scripture and canon

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 92.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/92/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 92.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/92/1/).