Dialogue with Trypho 108.2
Summary: Justin says Jewish leaders spread the story that the disciples stole Jesus' body.
Greek text · Archambault 2:158–160
καὶ οὐ μόνον οὐ μετενοήσατε, μαθόντες αὐτὸν ἀναστάντα ἐκ νεκρῶν, ἀλλʼ, ὡς προεῖπον, ἄνδρας χειροτονήσαντες ἐκλεκτοὺς εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐπέμψατε, κηρύσσοντας ὅτι αἵρεσίς τις ἄθεος καὶ ἄνομος ἐγήγερται ἀπὸ Ἰησοῦ τινος Γαλιλαίου πλάνου ὃν σταυρωσάντων ἡμῶν, οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ κλέψαντες αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ μνήματος νυκτός, ὁπόθεν κατετέθη ἀφηλωθεὶς ἀπὸ τοῦ σταυροῦ, πλανῶσι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους λέγοντες ἐγηγέρθαι αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν καὶ εἰς οὐρανὸν ἀνεληλυθέναι κατειπόντες δεδιδαχέναι καὶ ταῦτα ἅπερ κατὰ τῶν ὁμολογούντων Χριστὸν καὶ διδάσκαλον καὶ υἱὸν θεοῦ εἶναι παντὶ γένει ἀνθρώπων ἄθεα καὶ ἄνομα καὶ ἀνόσια λέγετε.
English · Claude translation
“you not only did not repent when you learned that he had risen from the dead, but, as I said before, you chose and appointed picked men and sent them into the whole world, proclaiming that a godless and lawless sect had been raised up by a certain Jesus, a Galilean deceiver, whom we crucified, but his disciples stole him by night from the tomb, where he was laid when unfastened from the cross, and now deceive men by saying that he has risen from the dead and ascended into heaven; and accusing him of having taught those godless and lawless and unholy things which you say to every race of men against those who confess him as Christ and Teacher and Son of God.
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- Compare Matt 28:13–15.
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Justin, Dial. 108.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/108/2/).
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Justin, Dial. 108.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/108/2/).
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