Dialogue with Trypho 92.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:92–94

Καὶ ἡμεῖς οὖν, ἐν ἀκροβυστίᾳ τῆς σαρκὸς ἡμῶν πιστεύοντες τῷ θεῷ διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ περιτομὴν ἔχοντες τὴν ὠφελοῦσαν ἡμᾶς τοὺς κεκτημένους, τουτέστι τῆς καρδίας, δίκαιοι καὶ εὐάρεστοι τῷ θεῷ ἐλπίζομεν φανῆναι, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἤδη μεμαρτυρήμεθα διὰ τῶν προφητικῶν λόγων ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ. Τὸ δὲ σαββατίζειν καὶ τὰς προσφορὰς φέρειν κελευσθῆναι ὑμᾶς, καὶ τόπον εἰς ὄνομα τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπικληθῆναι ἀνασχέσθαι τὸν κύριον, ἵνα, ὡς εἴρηται, μὴ εἰδωλολατροῦντες καὶ ἀμνημονοῦντες τοῦ θεοῦ ἀσεβεῖς καὶ ἄθεοι γένησθε, ὡς ἀεὶ φαίνεσθε γεγενημένοι.

English · Claude translation

“And we, then, believing God through Christ in the uncircumcision of our flesh, and having the circumcision that profits us who have it, that is, of the heart, hope to appear righteous and pleasing to God, since we have already been attested by him through the prophetic words. But that you were commanded to keep the Sabbath and bring offerings, and that the Lord allowed a place to be called by the name of God, was so that, as has been said, you might not become ungodly and atheists by worshiping idols and forgetting God, as you always appear to have become.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:92–94 · 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

Rom 2:29 · echo, high confidence
Deut 12:5 · allusion, medium confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip (capital lost at the start of a section); digitization slip (letters transposed)): καὶ ἡμεῖς οὖν, ἐν ἀκροβυστίᾳ → Καὶ ἡμεῖς οὖν, ἐν ἀκροβυστίᾳ; τῆς σακρὸς → τῆς σαρκὸς.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 92.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/92/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 92.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/92/4/).