Dialogue with Trypho 96.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:106

Ὅπερ καὶ ὄψει ἰδεῖν ὑμῖν ἔστι γινόμενον· ὑμεῖς γὰρ ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς ὑμῶν καταρᾶσθε πάντων τῶν ἀπʼ ἐκείνου γενομένων Χριστιανῶν, καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἔθνη, ἃ καὶ ἐνεργῆ τὴν κατάραν ἐργάζονται, ἀναιροῦντα τοὺς μόνον ὁμολογοῦντας ἑαυτοὺς εἶναι Χριστιανούς· οἷς ἡμεῖς ἅπασι λέγομεν, ὅτι Ἀδελφοὶ ἡμῶν ἐστε, ἐπίγνωτε μᾶλλον τὴν ἀλήθειαν τοῦ θεοῦ. Καὶ μὴ πειθομένων ἡμῖν μήτε ἐκείνων μήτε ὑμῶν, ἀλλὰ ἀρνεῖσθαι ἡμᾶς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀγωνιζομένων, θανατοῦσθαι μᾶλλον αἱρούμεθα καὶ ὑπομένομεν, πεπεισμένοι ὅτι πανθʼ ὅσα ὑπέσχηται ὁ θεὸς διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀγαθὰ ἀποδώσει ἡμῖν.

English · Claude translation

“Which you can see happening with your own eyes; for in your synagogues you curse all those who have become Christians through him, and the other nations, who put the curse into effect, killing those who merely confess that they are Christians; to all of whom we say, ‘You are our brothers; rather recognize the truth of God.’ And when neither they nor you are persuaded by us, but strive to make us deny the name of Christ, we choose rather to be put to death, and endure it, persuaded that God will give us all the good things he has promised through Christ.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:106 · 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

Isa 66:5 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Persecution, Martyrdom

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (letters transposed); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): ἀπʼ ἐκεῖνου → ἀπʼ ἐκείνου; τὰ ἄλλα ἔθην → τὰ ἄλλα ἔθνη.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 96.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/96/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 96.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/96/2/).