Dialogue with Trypho 23.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:104–106

Καὶ μηδὲν μηδενὸς ἀποκριναμένου· Διὰ ταῦτά σοι, ὦ Τρύφων, καὶ τοῖς βουλομένοις προσηλύτοις γενέσθαι κηρύξω ἐγὼ θεῖον λόγον, ὃν παρʼ ἐκείνου ἤκουσα τοῦ ἀνδρός. Ὁρᾶτε ὅτι τὰ στοιχεῖα οὐκ ἀργεῖ οὐδὲ σαββατίζει. Μείνατε ὡς γεγένησθε. Εἰ γὰρ πρὸ τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ οὐκ ἦν χρεία περιτομῆς οὐδὲ πρὸ Μωσέως σαββατισμοῦ καὶ ἑορτῶν καὶ προσφορῶν, οὐδὲ νῦν, μετὰ τὸν κατὰ τὴν βουλὴν τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ Μαρίας τῆς ἀπὸ γένους τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ, παρθένου γεννηθέντα υἱὸν θεοῦ Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, ὁμοίως ἐστὶ χρεία.

English · Claude translation

And when no one answered: “For these reasons, Trypho, I will proclaim to you and to those who wish to become proselytes the divine word which I heard from that man. You see that the elements are not idle and keep no Sabbath. Remain as you were born. For if there was no need of circumcision before Abraham, nor of the Sabbath and feasts and offerings before Moses, neither is there need of them now, after the Son of God, Jesus Christ, has been born according to the will of God through Mary, a virgin of the race of Abraham.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:104–106 · 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

Matt 1:1 · echo, medium confidence
Isa 7:14 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“From that man”: the old man of ch. 3–7.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (dropped letter); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): ὄν παρʼ ἐκείνου → ὃν παρʼ ἐκείνου; προφορῶν → προσφορῶν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/23/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/23/3/).