Dialogue with Trypho 30.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:130–132

Καὶ διὰ τοῦ ψαλμοῦ τοῦτο εἴρηται, ὦ ἄνδρες. Καὶ ὅτι γλυκύτερα ὑπὲρ μέλι καὶ κηρίον ὁμολογοῦμεν αὐτά, οἱ σοφισθέντες ἀπʼ αὐτῶν, ἐκ τοῦ καὶ μέχρι θανάτου ἀνεξαρνήτους ἡμᾶς γίνεσθαι τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ φαίνεται. Ὅτι δὲ καὶ αἰτοῦμεν αὐτόν, οἱ πιστεύοντες εἰς αὐτόν, ἵνα ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων, τουτέστιν ἀπὸ τῶν πονηρῶν καὶ πλάνων πνευμάτων, συντηρήσῃ ἡμᾶς, ἀπὸ προσώπου ἑνὸς τῶν εἰς αὐτὸν πιστευόντων σχηματοποιήσας ὁ λόγος τῆς προφητείας λέγει, πᾶσι φανερόν ἐστιν.

English · Claude translation

“And this was said through the psalm, sirs. And that we, who have been made wise by them, confess them to be sweeter than honey and the honeycomb, is clear from the fact that we do not deny his name even to death. And it is clear to all that we who believe in him ask him to keep us from strangers, that is, from wicked and deceitful spirits, as the word of prophecy says, speaking in the person of one of those who believe in him.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:130–132 · 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 19:10 (18:11 LXX) · allusion, high confidence
Ps 19:13 (18:14 LXX) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom, Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

Ps 19:10 and 19:13, where the LXX reads “from strangers” (ἀπὸ ἀλλοτρίων) for the Hebrew “from presumptuous sins.”

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (damaged spot in the digital text; restored from the sense): γίνεσθαι το(??) ὀνόματος → γίνεσθαι τοῦ ὀνόματος.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/30/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/30/2/).