Dialogue with Trypho 16.3

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: God foresaw what would happen and prepared what each deserves.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:74–76

Οὐ γὰρ ἐξ ἄλλου τινὸς γνωρίζεσθε παρὰ τοὺς ἄλλους ἀνθρώπους, ἢ ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν σαρκὶ ὑμῶν περιτομῆς. Οὐδεὶς γὰρ ὑμῶν, ὡς νομίζω, τολμήσει εἰπεῖν ὅτι μὴ καὶ προγνώστης τῶν γίνεσθαι μελλόντων ἦν καὶ ἔστιν ὁ θεὸς καὶ τὰ ἄξια ἑκάστῳ προετοιμάζων. Καὶ ὑμῖν οὖν ταῦτα καλῶς καὶ δικαίως γέγονεν.

English · Claude translation

“For you are known among other men by nothing else than by your circumcision in the flesh. For none of you, I think, will dare to say that God was not and is not one who knows beforehand what will happen, and prepares what each deserves. And so these things have happened to you well and justly.

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Source: Archambault 1:74–76 · 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.

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Justin, Dial. 16.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/16/3/).

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Justin, Dial. 16.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/16/3/).

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