Dialogue with Trypho 93.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:96–98

Ταὐτʼ οὖν τῷ πλησίον καὶ εὔξαιτʼ ἂν καὶ ἐργάσαιτο γενέσθαι, ἅπερ καὶ ἑαυτῷ, ὁ τὸν πλησίον ἀγαπῶν· πλησίον δὲ ἀνθρώπου οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἐστὶν ἢ τὸ ὁμοιοπαθὲς καὶ λογικὸν ζῶον, ὁ ἄνθρωπος. Διχῇ οὖν τῆς πάσης δικαιοσύνης τετμημένης, πρός τε θεὸν καὶ ἀνθρώπους, ὅστις, φησὶν ὁ λόγος, ἀγαπᾷ κύριον τὸν θεὸν ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ἰσχύος, καὶ τὸν πλησίον ὡς ἑαυτόν, δίκαιος ἀληθῶς ἂν εἴη.

English · Claude translation

“So the one who loves his neighbor would pray and work for the same things to come to his neighbor as to himself; and a man's neighbor is nothing other than the living being of like passions and rational, man. Since, then, all righteousness is divided in two, toward God and toward men, whoever, the word says, loves the Lord God with all his heart and with all his strength, and his neighbor as himself, would be truly righteous.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:96–98 · 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

Ethics

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): εὔξαιτʼ ἄν → εὔξαιτʼ ἂν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 93.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/93/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 93.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/93/3/).