Dialogue with Trypho 93.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:98

Ὑμεῖς δὲ οὔτε πρὸς θεὸν οὔτε πρὸς τοὺς προφήτας οὔτε πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς φιλίαν ἢ ἀγάπην ἔχοντες οὐδέποτε ἐδείχθητε, ἀλλʼ, ὡς δείκνυται, καὶ εἰδωλολάτραι πάντοτε καὶ φονεῖς τῶν δικαίων εὑρίσκεσθε, ὡς καὶ μέχρις αὐτοῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τὰς χεῖρας ἐπιβαλεῖν ὑμᾶς καὶ μέχρι νῦν ἐπιμένειν τῇ κακίᾳ ὑμῶν, καταρωμένους καὶ τῶν τοῦτον τὸν ἐσταυρωμένον ὑφʼ ὑμῶν ἀποδεικνύντων εἶναι τὸν Χριστόν· καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ἐκεῖνον μὲν ὡς ἐχθρὸν θεοῦ καὶ κατηραμένον ἀξιοῦτε ἀποδεικνύναι ἐσταυρῶσθαι, ὅπερ τῆς ἀλογίστου ὑμῶν γνώμης ἔργον ἐστίν.

English · Claude translation

“But you have never been shown to have friendship or love toward God or toward the prophets or toward yourselves, but, as is shown, you are found always both idolaters and murderers of the righteous, so that you laid your hands even on Christ himself, and to this day you persist in your wickedness, cursing even those who prove that this man crucified by you is the Christ; and besides, you think to prove that he was crucified as an enemy of God and accursed, which is the work of your irrational mind.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:98 · 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)

Scripture

Acts 7:52 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Harsh polemic, translated as written.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): ὐφʼ ὑμῶν → ὑφʼ ὑμῶν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 93.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/93/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 93.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/93/4/).