Dialogue with Trypho 107.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The gourd and Jonah's grief.

Greek text · Archambault 2:156–158

Ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ Ἰωνᾶ ἀνιωμένου ἐπὶ τῷ τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ, ὡς ἐκήρυξε, μὴ καταστραφῆναι τὴν πόλιν, διὰ τῆς οἰκονομίας τοῦ ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἀνατεῖλαι αὐτῷ κικυῶνα, ὑφʼ ὃν καθεζόμενος ἐσκιάζετο ἀπὸ καύματος (ἦν δὲ ὁ κικυῶν αἰφνίδιος, μήτε φυτεύσαντος τοῦ Ἰωνᾶ μήτε ποτίσαντος, ἀλλʼ ἐξαίφνης ἐπανατείλας αὐτῷ σκιὰν παρέχειν), κἀκ τῆς ἄλλης ξηρᾶναι αὐτόν, ἐφʼ ᾧ ἐλυπεῖτο Ἰωνᾶς, καὶ ἤλεγξεν αὐτὸν οὐ δικαίως ἀθυμοῦντα ἐπὶ τῷ μὴ κατεστράφθαι τὴν Νινευϊτῶν πόλιν, λέγων·

English · Claude translation

“But when Jonah was grieved that on the third day, as he had proclaimed, the city was not overthrown, by the dispensation of causing a gourd to spring up for him out of the earth, under which he sat and was shaded from the heat (and the gourd was sudden, Jonah neither having planted nor watered it, but it sprang up suddenly to give him shade), and the next day causing it to wither, at which Jonah was grieved, he convicted him of being wrongly despondent because the city of the Ninevites had not been overthrown, saying:

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:156–158 · 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 4:1 · allusion, high confidence
Jonah 4:6 · allusion, high confidence
Jonah 4:7 · allusion, high confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 107.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/107/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 107.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/107/3/).