Dialogue with Trypho 93.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:96

Ἰδεῖν γὰρ ἔστι καὶ τοὺς τοιούτους μὴ τὰ αὐτὰ παθεῖν βουλομένους ἅπερ αὐτοὶ τοὺς ἄλλους διατιθέασι, καὶ ἐν συνειδήσεσιν ἐχθραῖς ταῦτα ὀνειδίζοντας ἀλλήλοις ἅπερ ἐργάζονται. Ὅθεν μοι δοκεῖ καλῶς εἰρῆσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡμετέρου κυρίου καὶ σωτῆρος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐν δυσὶν ἐντολαῖς πᾶσαν δικαιοσύνην καὶ εὐσέβειαν πληροῦσθαι· εἰσὶ δὲ αὗται· Ἀγαπήσεις κύριον τὸν θεόν σου ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας σου καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ἰσχύος σου, καὶ τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν. Ὁ γὰρ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ἰσχύος ἀγαπῶν τὸν θεόν, πλήρης θεοσεβοῦς γνώμης ὑπάρχων, οὐδένα ἄλλον τιμήσει θεόν· καὶ ἄγγελον ἐκεῖνον ἂν τιμήσει θεοῦ βουλομένου, τὸν ἀγαπώμενον ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ κυρίου καὶ θεοῦ. Καὶ ὁ τὸν πλησίον ὡς ἑαυτὸν ἀγαπῶν, ἅπερ ἑαυτῷ βούλεται ἀγαθά, κἀκείνῳ βουλήσεται· οὐδεὶς δὲ ἑαυτῷ κακὰ βουλήσεται.

English · Claude translation

“For one can see that even such people do not wish to suffer the things they inflict on others, and reproach one another with hostile consciences for the very things they do. Hence it seems to me that it was well said by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that all righteousness and piety are fulfilled in two commandments; they are these: ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your strength, and your neighbor as yourself.’ For he who loves God with all his heart and with all his strength, being full of a God-fearing mind, will honor no other god; and he would honor that angel, if God willed it, who is loved by the same Lord and God. And he who loves his neighbor as himself will wish for him the same good things that he wishes for himself; and no one will wish evil for himself.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:96 · 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

Matt 22:37 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 22:39 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 22:40 · allusion, high confidence
Mark 12:30 · quotation, medium confidence

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

“He would honor that angel … who is loved by the same Lord and God”: that is, the Son, whom Justin calls Angel.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 93.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/93/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 93.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/93/2/).