# Dialogus cum Tryphone 5.4

Justin Martyr, Dialogus cum Tryphone, Chapter 5. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/justin-martyr/dialogus-cum-tryphone/5.4

Ἆρα τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν ὅ λέγεις, οἶον καὶ Πλάτων ἐν Τιμαίῳ [44 AB] αἰνίσσεται περὶ τοῦ κόσμου, λέγων ὃτι αὐτὸς μὲν καὶ φθαρτός ἐστιν ἧ γέγονεν, οὐ λυθήσεται δὲ οὐδὲ τεύξεται θανάτου μοίρας διὰ τὴν βούλησιν τοῦ θεο(??); Τοῦτ᾿ αὐτό σοι δοκεῖ καὶ περὶ ψυχῆς καὶ ἀπλῶς πάντων πέρι λέγεσθαι; Ὅσα γάρ ἐστι μετὰ τὸν θεὸν ἢ ἔσται ποτέ. ταῦτα φύσιν φθαρτὴν ἔχειν, καὶ οἶά τε ἐξαφανισθῆναι καὶ μὴ εἶναι ἔτι· μόνος γὰρ ἀγέννητος καὶ ἄφθαρτος ὁ θεὸς καὶ διὰ τοῦτο θεός ἐστι, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ πάντα μετὰ τοῦτον γεννητὰ καὶ φθαρτά.

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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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0645.tlg003.local001/.