Dialogue with Trypho 93.4
Summary: Justin charges that the Jews have not loved God or neighbor.
Greek text · Archambault 2:98
Ὑμεῖς δὲ οὔτε πρὸς θεὸν οὔτε πρὸς τοὺς προφήτας οὔτε πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς φιλίαν ἢ ἀγάπην ἔχοντες οὐδέποτε ἐδείχθητε, ἀλλʼ, ὡς δείκνυται, καὶ εἰδωλολάτραι πάντοτε καὶ φονεῖς τῶν δικαίων εὑρίσκεσθε, ὡς καὶ μέχρις αὐτοῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τὰς χεῖρας ἐπιβαλεῖν ὑμᾶς καὶ μέχρι νῦν ἐπιμένειν τῇ κακίᾳ ὑμῶν, καταρωμένους καὶ τῶν τοῦτον τὸν ἐσταυρωμένον ὑφʼ ὑμῶν ἀποδεικνύντων εἶναι τὸν Χριστόν· καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ἐκεῖνον μὲν ὡς ἐχθρὸν θεοῦ καὶ κατηραμένον ἀξιοῦτε ἀποδεικνύναι ἐσταυρῶσθαι, ὅπερ τῆς ἀλογίστου ὑμῶν γνώμης ἔργον ἐστίν.
English · Claude translation
“But you have never been shown to have friendship or love toward God or toward the prophets or toward yourselves, but, as is shown, you are found always both idolaters and murderers of the righteous, so that you laid your hands even on Christ himself, and to this day you persist in your wickedness, cursing even those who prove that this man crucified by you is the Christ; and besides, you think to prove that he was crucified as an enemy of God and accursed, which is the work of your irrational mind.
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- Harsh polemic, translated as written.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): ὐφʼ ὑμῶν → ὑφʼ ὑμῶν.
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Justin, Dial. 93.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/93/4/).
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Justin, Dial. 93.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/93/4/).
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