Dialogue with Trypho 30.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The law seems unworthy of God only to those who do not see that it called a sick people to repentance.

Greek text · Archambault 1:130

Ἀλλὰ τῇ αὑτῶν κακίᾳ ἐγκαλεῖτε, ὅτι καὶ συκοφαντεῖσθαι δυνατός ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς ὑπὸ τῶν νοῦν μὴ ἐχόντων, ὡς τὰ αὐτὰ δίκαια μὴ πάντας ἀεὶ διδάξας. Πολλοῖς γὰρ ἀνθρώποις ἄλογα καὶ οὐκ ἄξια θεοῦ τὰ τοιαῦτα διδάγματα ἔδοξεν εἶναι, μὴ λαβοῦσι χάριν τοῦ γνῶναι ὅτι τὸν λαὸν ὑμῶν πονηρευόμενον καὶ ἐν νόσῳ ψυχικῇ ὑπάρχοντα εἰς ἐπιστροφὴν καὶ μετάνοιαν τοῦ πνεύματος κέκληκε, καὶ αἰώνιός ἐστι μετὰ τὸν Μωσέως θάνατον προελθοῦσα ἡ προφητεία.

English · Claude translation

“But blame your own wickedness, because God can be slandered by those who have no understanding, as though he had not always taught all the same righteous things. For to many men such teachings have seemed unreasonable and unworthy of God, since they have not received the grace to know that he called your people, when it was acting wickedly and was sick in soul, to conversion and repentance of spirit, and that the prophecy that came after the death of Moses is eternal.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:130 · 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.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 30.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/30/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 30.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/30/1/).