Dialogue with Trypho 92.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:94

Καὶ ὅτι διὰ ταῦτα ἐνετέταλτο ὁ θεὸς τὰς περὶ σαββάτων καὶ προσφορῶν ἐντολάς, προαποδέδεικταί μοι διὰ τῶν προειρημένων· διὰ δὲ τοὺς σήμερον ἐλθόντας καὶ τὰ αὐτὰ σχεδὸν πάντα βούλομαι ἀναλαμβάνειν. Ἐπεί, εἰ μὴ τοῦτό ἐστι, συκοφαντηθήσεται ὁ θεός, ὡς μήτε πρόγνωσιν ἔχων μήτε τὰ αὐτὰ δίκαια πάντας διδάσκων καὶ εἰδέναι καὶ πράττειν (πολλαὶ γὰρ γενεαὶ ἀνθρώπων πρὸ Μωσέως φαίνονται γεγενημέναι), καὶ οὐκ ἔστι λόγος ὁ λέγων ὡς ἀληθὴς ὁ θεὸς καὶ δίκαιος καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ ὁδοὶ αὐτοῦ κρίσεις, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀδικία ἐν αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

“And that God commanded the commandments about Sabbaths and offerings for these reasons has been proved by me already in what was said before; but for the sake of those who came today I wish to take up almost all the same points again. Since, if this is not so, God will be slandered, as having no foreknowledge, and as not teaching all men to know and to do the same righteous things (for many generations of men are seen to have existed before Moses), and the word will not be true which says that God is true and righteous and all his ways are judgments, and there is no injustice in him.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:94 · 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

Deut 32:4 · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): ὁ θεος, ὡς → ὁ θεός, ὡς; τά αὐτὰ δίκαια → τὰ αὐτὰ δίκαια.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 92.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/92/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 92.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/92/5/).