Dialogue with Trypho 107.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:158

Σὺ ἐφείσω περὶ τοῦ κικυῶνος, οὗ οὐκ ἐκοπίασας ἐν αὐτῷ; οὔτε ἐξέθρεψας αὐτόν, ὃς ὑπὸ νύκτα αὐτοῦ ἦλθε καὶ ὑπὸ νύκτα αὐτοῦ ἀπώλετο· κἀγὼ οὐ φείσομαι ὑπὲρ Νινευΐ, τῆς πόλεως τῆς μεγάλης, ἐν ᾗ κατοικοῦσι πλείους ἢ δώδεκα μυριάδες ἀνδρῶν, οἳ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν ἀνὰ μέσον δεξιᾶς αὐτῶν καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον ἀριστερᾶς αὐτῶν, καὶ κτήνη πολλά;

English · Claude translation

“‘You had pity on the gourd, for which you did not labor, nor did you raise it, which came up in a night and perished in a night; and shall I not spare Nineveh, the great city, in which dwell more than a hundred and twenty thousand men who do not know their right hand from their left, and many cattle?’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:158 · 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

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.

Scripture

Jonah 4:10 · quotation, high confidence
Jonah 4:11 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): ὅς ὑπὸ νύκτα → ὃς ὑπὸ νύκτα.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 107.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/107/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 107.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/107/4/).