Dialogue with Trypho 141.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:304–306

Ἵνα δὲ μὴ πρόφασιν ἔχητε λέγειν ὅτι ἔδει τὸν Χριστὸν σταυρωθῆναι, ἢ καὶ ἐν τῷ γένει ὑμῶν εἶναι τοὺς παραβαίνοντας, καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἄλλως ἐδύνατο γενέσθαι, φθάσας διὰ βραχέων εἶπον, ὅτι βουλόμενος τοὺς ἀγγέλους καὶ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἕπεσθαι τῇ βουλῇ αὐτοῦ ὁ θεὸς ἐβουλήθη ποιῆσαι τούτους αὐτεξουσίους πρὸς δικαιοπραξίαν, μετὰ λόγου τοῦ ἐπίστασθαι αὐτοὺς ὑφʼ οὗ γεγόνασι, καὶ διʼ ὃν εἰσι πρότερον οὐκ ὄντες, καὶ μετὰ νόμου τοῦ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ κρίνεσθαι, ἐὰν παρὰ τὸν ὀρθὸν λόγον πράττωσι· καὶ διʼ ἑαυτοὺς ἡμεῖς, οἱ ἄνθρωποι καὶ οἱ ἄγγελοι, ἐλεγχθησόμεθα πονηρευσάμενοι, ἐὰν μὴ φθάσαντες μεταθώμεθα.

English · Claude translation

“But so that you may have no excuse to say that Christ had to be crucified, or that there had to be transgressors in your race, and it could not have happened otherwise, I said briefly before that God, wishing angels and men to follow his will, willed to make them free to do righteousness, with reason, so that they might know by whom they were made, and through whom they exist who before did not exist, and with a law, that they should be judged by him if they act contrary to right reason; and we, men and angels, shall be convicted by ourselves of having done evil, unless we repent in time.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:304–306 · 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.

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): αὐτοὺς ὐφʼ οὗ → αὐτοὺς ὑφʼ οὗ; διʼ ὅν εἰσι → διʼ ὃν εἰσι; ὑπʼ αὐτου κρίνεσθαι → ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ κρίνεσθαι.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 141.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/141/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 141.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/141/1/).