Dialogue with Trypho 46.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Trypho admits the patriarchs are saved without the Mosaic law.

Greek text · Archambault 1:204–206

Κἀγώ· Ἐπίσταμαι, ἔφην, ὅτι περιετέτμητο Ἀβραὰμ καὶ οἱ μετʼ αὐτόν· διὰ τί δὲ ἐδόθη αὐτοῖς ἡ περιτομή, ἐν πολλοῖς τοῖς προλελεγμένοις εἶπον, καὶ εἰ μὴ δυσωπεῖ ὑμᾶς τὰ λεγόμενα, πάλιν ἐξετάσωμεν τὸν λόγον. Ὅτι δὲ μέχρι Μωσέως οὐδεὶς ἁπλῶς δίκαιος οὐδὲν ὅλως τούτων περὶ ὧν ἐζητοῦμεν ἐφύλαξεν οὐδὲ ἐντολὴν ἔλαβε φυλάσσειν, πλὴν τὴν ἀρχὴν λαβούσης ἀπὸ Ἀβραὰμ τῆς περιτομῆς, ἐπίστασθε. Κἀκεῖνος· Ἐπιστάμεθα, ἔφη, καὶ ὅτι σώζονται ὁμολογοῦμεν.

English · Claude translation

And I said, “I know that Abraham and those after him were circumcised; and why circumcision was given them I have said in much that went before; and if what has been said does not shame you, let us examine the argument again. But you know that until Moses no righteous man at all kept any of these things we were inquiring about, nor received a command to keep them, except circumcision, which began with Abraham.” And he said, “We know, and we admit that they are saved.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:204–206 · 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. 46.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/46/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 46.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/46/4/).