Dialogue with Trypho 68.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Trypho asks time to examine; Justin asks him not to take back agreements.

Greek text · Archambault 1:326

Καὶ ὁ Τρύφων· Ὅρα, ὦ φίλε, ἔφη, ὅτι μετὰ πολλοῦ κόπου καὶ καμάτου γέγονέ σοι τὸ κτήσασθαι αὐτά· καὶ ἡμᾶς οὖν, βασανίσαντας πάντα τὰ ἐπιτρέχοντα, συνθέσθαι δεῖ οἷς ἀναγκάζουσιν ἡμᾶς αἱ γραφαί. Κἀγὼ πρὸς ταῦτα· Οὐκ ἀξιῶ, εἶπον, ὑμᾶς μὴ παντὶ τρόπῳ ἀγωνιζομένους τὴν ἐξέτασιν τῶν ζητουμένων ποιεῖσθαι, ἀλλʼ ἐκείνοις μὴ πάλιν ἀντιλέγειν, μηδὲν ἔχοντας λέγειν, οἷς ἔφητε συνθέσθαι.

English · Claude translation

And Trypho said, “See, friend, that you acquired these things with much labor and toil; and so we too must first test everything that comes up, and then agree to what the Scriptures compel us.” And I said to this, “I do not ask you not to make your examination of the questions by striving in every way, but not again to contradict, having nothing to say, the things you said you agreed to.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:326 · 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. 68.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/68/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 68.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/68/2/).