Dialogue with Trypho 95.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: All humanity is under the law's curse.

Greek text · Archambault 2:102

Καὶ γὰρ πᾶν γένος ἀνθρώπων εὑρεθήσεται ὑπὸ κατάραν ὂν κατὰ τὸν νόμον Μωσέως. Ἐπικατάρατος γὰρ εἴρηται πᾶς ὃς οὐκ ἐμμένει ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς γεγραμμένοις ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ τοῦ νόμου τοῦ ποιῆσαι αὐτά. Καὶ οὐδεὶς ἀκριβῶς πάντα ἐποίησεν, οὐδʼ ὑμεῖς τολμήσετε ἀντειπεῖν· ἀλλʼ εἰσὶν οἳ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον ἀλλήλων τὰ ἐντεταλμένα ἐφύλαξαν. Εἰ δὲ οἱ ὑπὸ τὸν νόμον τοῦτον ὑπὸ κατάραν φαίνονται εἶναι, διὰ τὸ μὴ πάντα φυλάξαι, οὐχὶ πολὺ μᾶλλον πάντα τὰ ἔθνη φανήσονται ὑπὸ κατάραν ὄντα, καὶ εἰδωλολατροῦντα καὶ παιδοφθοροῦντα καὶ τὰ ἄλλα κακὰ ἐργαζόμενα;

English · Claude translation

“For the whole human race will be found to be under a curse according to the law of Moses. For it is said, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things written in the book of the law to do them.’ And no one has done all things exactly, not even you will dare to deny; but some have kept the commandments more and some less than others. But if those under this law are seen to be under a curse because they have not kept all things, will not all the nations much more be seen to be under a curse, worshiping idols and corrupting boys and doing the other evils?

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:102 · 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 27:26 · quotation, high confidence
Gal 3:10 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Ethics

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 95.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/95/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 95.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/95/1/).