Dialogue with Trypho 56.18 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:258–260

Καὶ μετʼ ὀλίγον πάλιν οὕτως φησίν· Εἶπε κύριος· Κραυγὴ Σοδόμων καὶ Γομόρρας πεπλήθυνται, καὶ αἱ ἁμαρτίαι αὐτῶν μεγάλαι σφόδρα. Καταβὰς οὖν ὄψομαι εἰ κατὰ τὴν κραυγὴν αὐτῶν τὴν ἐρχομένην πρός με συντελοῦνται, εἰ δὲ μή, ἵνα γνῶ. Καὶ ἀποστρέψαντες οἱ ἄνδρες ἐκεῖθεν ἦλθον εἰς Σόδομα. Ἀβραὰμ δὲ ἦν ἑστηκὼς ἔναντι κυρίου, καὶ ἐγγίσας Ἀβραὰμ εἶπεν· Μὴ συναπολέσῃς δίκαιον μετὰ ἀσεβοῦς; καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς· οὐ γὰρ γράφειν πάλιν τὰ αὐτά, τῶν πάντων προγεγραμμένων, δοκεῖ μοι, ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖνα, διʼ ὧν καὶ τὴν ἀπόδειξιν τῷ Τρύφωνι καὶ τοῖς σὺν αὐτῷ πεποίημαι, λέγειν ἀναγκαῖον.

English · Claude translation

“And a little later it says again thus: ‘The Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sins are very grave. I will go down, then, and see whether they are doing altogether according to the cry that comes to me; and if not, that I may know. And the men turned from there and came to Sodom. But Abraham was standing before the Lord; and Abraham drew near and said: Will you destroy the righteous with the ungodly?’ and so on; for it does not seem right to me to write the same things again, since they have all been written before, but it is necessary to state those by which I made the proof to Trypho and those with him.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:258–260 · 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

Gen 18:20 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 18:21 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 18:22 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 18:23 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

Justin, writing up the conversation, speaks here to the reader.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): ἴνα γνῶ → ἵνα γνῶ; καὶ τὰ ἐξῆς → καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 56.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/18/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 56.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/18/).