Dialogue with Trypho 27.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Israel's persistence in sin made the prophets repeat the law.

Greek text · Archambault 1:120–122

Ὥστε ὃν τρόπον τὴν ἀρχὴν διὰ τάς κακίας ὑμῶν ταῦτα ἐντέταλτο, ὁμοίως διὰ τὴν ἐν τούτοις ὑπομονήν, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐπίτασιν, διὰ τῶν αὐτῶν εἰς ἀνάμνησιν αὐτοῦ καὶ γνῶσιν ὑμᾶς καλεῖ. Ὑμεῖς δὲ λαὸς σκληροκάρδιος καὶ ἀσύνετος καὶ τυφλὸς καὶ χωλὸς καὶ υἱοὶ οἷς οὐκ ἔστι πίστις ἐν αὐτοῖς, ὡς αὐτὸς λέγει, ἐστέ, τοῖς χείλεσιν αὐτὸν μόνον τιμῶντες, τῇ δὲ καρδίᾳ πόρρω αὐτοῦ ὄντες, ἰδίας διδασκαλίας καὶ μὴ τὰ ἐκείνου διδάσκοντες.

English · Claude translation

“So just as these things were commanded in the beginning because of your wickedness, likewise, because of your persistence in it, or rather your increase in it, he calls you by the same means to remembrance and knowledge of him. But you are a hard-hearted and senseless people, blind and lame, and sons in whom there is no faith, as he himself says, honoring him with your lips only, but far from him in your heart, teaching your own doctrines and not his.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:120–122 · 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 32:20 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 29:13 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 15:8 · echo, medium confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 27.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/27/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 27.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/27/4/).