Dialogue with Trypho 107.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:154–156

Καὶ πονηροτέραν τὴν γενεὰν ὑμῶν καὶ μοιχαλίδα μᾶλλον τῆς Νινευϊτῶν πόλεως ἐδήλου, οἵτινες, τοῦ Ἰωνᾶ κηρύξαντος αὐτοῖς μετὰ τὸ ἐκβρασθῆναι αὐτὸν τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἀπὸ τῆς κοιλίας τοῦ ἁδροῦ ἰχθύος ὅτι μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμέρας παμπληθεὶ ἀπολοῦνται, νηστείαν ἁπλῶς πάντων ζώων, ἀνθρώπων τε καὶ ἀλόγων, μετὰ σακκοφορίας καὶ ἐκτενοῦς ὀλολυγμοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν καρδιῶν ἀληθινῆς μετανοίας αὐτῶν καὶ ἀποταγῆς τῆς πρὸς ἀδικίαν ἐκήρυξαν, πιστεύσαντες ὅτι ἐλεήμων ὁ θεὸς καὶ φιλάνθρωπός ἐστιν ἐπὶ πάντας τοὺς μετατιθεμένους ἀπὸ τῆς κακίας, ὡς καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν βασιλέα τῆς πόλεως ἐκείνης καὶ τοὺς μεγιστάνας ὁμοίως σακκοφορήσαντας προσμεμενηκέναι τῇ νηστείᾳ καὶ τῇ ἱκεσίᾳ, καὶ ἐπιτυχεῖν μὴ καταστραφῆναι τὴν πόλιν αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

“And he showed that your generation was more wicked and adulterous than the city of the Ninevites, who, when Jonah preached to them, after he had been cast up on the third day from the belly of the great fish, that in three days they would all perish, proclaimed a fast of all living things without exception, both men and beasts, with sackcloth and earnest lamentation and true repentance from their hearts and renunciation of injustice, believing that God is merciful and kind to all who turn from wickedness; so that the king of that city himself and the nobles likewise put on sackcloth and persevered in fasting and supplication, and obtained that their city was not overthrown.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:154–156 · 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

Jonah 2:10 · allusion, high confidence
Jonah 3:4 · allusion, high confidence
Jonah 3:5 · allusion, high confidence
Jonah 3:7 · allusion, high confidence
Jonah 3:10 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 12:41 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Fasting

Notes

Translation notes

“In three days”: the LXX of Jonah 3:4, where the Hebrew has forty days.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 107.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/107/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 107.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/107/2/).