Dialogue with Trypho 96.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christians pray for their enemies, as Christ taught.

Greek text · Archambault 2:106–108

Καὶ πρὸς τούτοις πᾶσιν εὐχόμεθα ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, ἵνα ἐλεηθῆτε ὑπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ. Οὗτος γὰρ ἐδίδαξεν ἡμᾶς καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐχθρῶν εὔχεσθαι, εἰπών· Γίνεσθε χρηστοὶ καὶ οἰκτίρμονες, ὡς καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ οὐράνιος. Καὶ γὰρ τὸν παντοκράτορα θεὸν χρηστὸν καὶ οἰκτίρμονα ὁρῶμεν, τὸν ἥλιον αὐτοῦ ἀνατέλλοντα ἐπὶ ἀχαρίστους καὶ δικαίους, καὶ βρέχοντα ἐπὶ ὁσίους καὶ πονηρούς, οὓς πάντας ὅτι καὶ κρίνειν μέλλει ἐδίδαξε.

English · Claude translation

“And besides all this we pray for you, that you may find mercy from Christ. For he taught us to pray even for our enemies, saying: ‘Be kind and merciful, as your heavenly Father is.’ For we see that God Almighty is kind and merciful, making his sun rise on the ungrateful and the righteous, and sending rain on the holy and the wicked, all of whom he has taught that he will also judge.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:106–108 · 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 5:44 · allusion, high confidence
Luke 6:35 · quotation, high confidence
Luke 6:36 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 5:45 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Prayer, Ethics

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 96.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/96/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 96.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/96/3/).