Dialogue with Trypho 16.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Moses himself called for circumcision of the heart.

Greek text · Archambault 1:72–74

Καὶ διὰ Μωσέως κέκραγεν ὁ θεὸς αὐτός, οὕτως λέγων· Καὶ περιτεμεῖσθε τὴν σκληροκαρδίαν ὑμῶν καὶ τὸν τράχηλον οὐ σκληρυνεῖτε ἔτι· ὁ γὰρ κύριος, ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν καὶ κύριος τῶν κυρίων, θεὸς μέγας καὶ ἰσχυρὸς καὶ φοβερός, ὅστις οὐ θαυμάζει πρόσωπον οὐδὲ μὴ λάβῃ δῶρον. Καὶ ἐν τῷ Λευιτικῷ· Ὅτι παρέβησαν καὶ ὑπερεῖδόν με καὶ ὅτι ἐπορεύθησαν ἐναντίον μου πλάγιοι, καὶ ἐγὼ ἐπορεύθην μετʼ αὐτῶν πλαγίως, καὶ ἀπολῶ αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ γῇ τῶν ἐχθρῶν αὐτῶν. Τότε ἐντραπήσεται ἡ καρδία ἡ ἀπερίτμητος αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

“And God himself cried out through Moses, saying thus: ‘And you shall circumcise your hardness of heart, and you shall no longer stiffen your neck; for the Lord your God, and Lord of lords, is a great and mighty and terrible God, who does not regard persons nor take a bribe.’ And in Leviticus: ‘Because they transgressed and despised me, and because they walked contrary to me, I also walked contrary to them, and I will destroy them in the land of their enemies. Then their uncircumcised heart shall be ashamed.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:72–74 · 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

Deut 10:16 · quotation, high confidence
Deut 10:17 · quotation, high confidence
Lev 26:40 · quotation, high confidence
Lev 26:41 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/16/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/16/1/).