# Dialogus cum Tryphone 19.3

Justin Martyr, Dialogus cum Tryphone, Chapter 19. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/justin-martyr/dialogus-cum-tryphone/19.3

Καὶ ὑμεῖς μέν, οἱ τὴν σάρκα περιτετμημένοι, χρῄζετε τῆς ἡμετέρας περιτομῆς, ἡμεῖς δέ, ταύτην ἔχοντες, οὐδὲν ἐκείνης δεόμεθα. Εἰ γὰρ ἦν ἀναγκαία, ὡς δοκεῖτε, οὐκ ἂν ἀκρόβυστον ὁ θεὸς ἔπλασε τὸν Ἀδάμ, οὐδὲ ἐπέβλεψεν ἐπὶ τοῖς δώροις τοῦ ἐν ἀκροβυστίᾳ σαρκὸς προσενέγκαντος θυσίας Ἄβελ [cf. Gen., IV, 4], οὐδ᾿ ἂν εὐηρέστησεν ἐν ἀκροβυστίᾳ Ἐνώχ, καὶ οὐκ εὑρίσκετο, διότι μετέθηκεν αὐτὸν ὁ θεός [cf. Gen., v, 24].

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Justin Martyr, Dialogus cum Tryphone, ed. Georges Archambault. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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