Dialogue with Trypho 93.3
Summary: Righteousness is twofold: toward God and toward neighbor.
Greek text · Archambault 2:96–98
Ταὐτʼ οὖν τῷ πλησίον καὶ εὔξαιτʼ ἂν καὶ ἐργάσαιτο γενέσθαι, ἅπερ καὶ ἑαυτῷ, ὁ τὸν πλησίον ἀγαπῶν· πλησίον δὲ ἀνθρώπου οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἐστὶν ἢ τὸ ὁμοιοπαθὲς καὶ λογικὸν ζῶον, ὁ ἄνθρωπος. Διχῇ οὖν τῆς πάσης δικαιοσύνης τετμημένης, πρός τε θεὸν καὶ ἀνθρώπους, ὅστις, φησὶν ὁ λόγος, ἀγαπᾷ κύριον τὸν θεὸν ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ἰσχύος, καὶ τὸν πλησίον ὡς ἑαυτόν, δίκαιος ἀληθῶς ἂν εἴη.
English · Claude translation
“So the one who loves his neighbor would pray and work for the same things to come to his neighbor as to himself; and a man's neighbor is nothing other than the living being of like passions and rational, man. Since, then, all righteousness is divided in two, toward God and toward men, whoever, the word says, loves the Lord God with all his heart and with all his strength, and his neighbor as himself, would be truly righteous.
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- Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): εὔξαιτʼ ἄν → εὔξαιτʼ ἂν.
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Justin, Dial. 93.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/93/3/).
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Justin, Dial. 93.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/93/3/).
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