Dialogue with Trypho 2.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Sent away, Justin was unwilling to spend years on preliminary studies.

Greek text · Archambault 1:10

Πολλά τε ἐπαινέσας ταῦτα τὰ μαθήματα καὶ ἀναγκαῖα εἰπὼν ἀπέπεμπέ με, ἐπεὶ αὐτῷ ὡμολόγησα μὴ εἰδέναι. Ἐδυσφόρουν οὖν, ὡς τὸ εἰκός, ἀποτυχὼν τῆς ἐλπίδος, καὶ μᾶλλον ᾗ ἐπίστασθαί τι αὐτὸν ᾠόμην· πάλιν τε τὸν χρόνον σκοπῶν, ὅν ἔμελλον ἐκτρίβειν περὶ ἐκεῖνα τὰ μαθήματα, οὐκ ἠνειχόμην εἰς μακρὰν ἀποτιθέμενος.

English · Claude translation

And after praising these studies at length and calling them necessary, he sent me away, since I admitted to him that I did not know them. So I was vexed, naturally, at failing in my hope, and all the more because I thought he knew something; and again, considering the time I would have to spend on those studies, I could not bear to put it off so long.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:10 · 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. 2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/2/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/2/5/).