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Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho: Greek Text with Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

W. Trollope provides valuable notes on the Greek text of Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho, along with an introduction to Justin Martyr in English. Outside of the New Testament, Dialogue with Trypho is considered one of the earliest attempts to systematically explain Christ as the Messiah prophesized in the Old Testament.

τὰςγραφὰς ἀλλήλαις, πεπλάνησαι· οὐ γὰρ τολμήσω2 τοῦτό ποτε ἢ ἐνθυμηθῆναι ἢ εἰπεῖν, ἀλλʼ ἐὰν τοιαύτη τις δοκοῦσα εἶναι γραφὴ προβληθῇ, καὶ πρόφασιν3 ἔχῃ ὡς ἐναντία οὖσα, ἐκ παντὸς πεπεισμένος ὅτι οὐδεμία γραφὴ τῇ ἑτέρᾳ ἐναντία ἐστὶν, αὐτὸς μὴ νοεῖν μᾶλλον ὁμολογήσω τὰ εἰρημένα, καὶ τοὺς ἐναντίας τὰς γραφὰς ὑπολαμβάνοντας τὸ αὐτὸ φρονεῖν μᾶλλον ἐμοὶ πεῖσαι ἀγωνίσομαι. Ὅπως δʼ ἂν ᾖς προτεθεικὼς τὸ πρόβλημα, Θεὸς ἐπίσταται. Ἐγὼ δὲ ὡς εἴρηται ὁ λόγος ἀναμνήσω ὑμᾶς, ὅπως καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ τούτου γνωρίσητε,
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