Dialogue with Trypho 141.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:306

Εἰ δὲ ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ προμηνύει πάντως τινὰς καὶ ἀγγέλους καὶ ἀνθρώπους κολασθήσεσθαι μέλλοντας, διότι προεγίνωσκεν αὐτοὺς ἀμεταβλήτως γενησομένους πονηρούς, προεῖπε ταῦτα, ἀλλʼ οὐχ, ὅτι αὐτοὺς ὁ θεὸς τοιούτους ἐποίησεν. Ὥστε, ἐὰν μετανοήσωσι, πάντες βουλόμενοι τυχεῖν τοῦ παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐλέους δύνανται, καὶ μακαρίους αὐτοὺς ὁ λόγος προλέγει εἰπών· Μακάριος, ᾧ οὐ μὴ λογίσηται κύριος ἁμαρτίαν· τοῦτο δέ ἐστιν, ὃς μετανοήσας ἐπὶ τοῖς ἁμαρτήμασι τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ λάβῃ ἄφεσιν, ἀλλʼ οὐχ, ὡς ὑμεῖς ἀπατᾶτε ἑαυτοὺς καὶ ἄλλοι τινὲς ὑμῖν ὅμοιοι κατὰ τοῦτο, οἳ λέγουσιν ὅτι, κἂν ἁμαρτωλοὶ ὦσι, θεὸν δὲ γινώσκουσιν, οὐ μὴ λογίσηται αὐτοῖς κύριος ἁμαρτίαν.

English · Claude translation

“And if the word of God foretells that certain angels and men will certainly be punished, it foretold this because it foreknew that they would become unchangeably wicked, but not because God made them such. So that, if they repent, all who wish can obtain mercy from God, and the word foretells that they are blessed, saying: ‘Blessed is he to whom the Lord will not reckon sin’; that is, he who, having repented of his sins, receives forgiveness of sins from God; and not, as you deceive yourselves, and some others like you in this, who say that, even if they are sinners, provided they know God, the Lord will not reckon sin to them.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:306 · 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

Ps 32:2 (31:2 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Rom 4:8 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong letters)): κύροις ἁμαρτίαν → κύριος ἁμαρτίαν; ἐστιν, ὅς μετανοήσας → ἐστιν, ὃς μετανοήσας.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 141.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/141/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 141.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/141/2/).