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Apologies & Dialogue 3-55

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3-55:1

Καὶ ὁ Τρύφων ἀπεκρίνατο· Μεμνησόμεθα καὶ ταύτης τῆς ἐξηγήσεώς σου, ἐὰν καὶ δι ἄλλων κρατύνῃς καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ἀπόρημα. Τανῦν δὲ ἤδη ἀναλαβὼν τὸν λόγον ἀπόδειξον ἡμῖν ὅτι ἕτερος θεὸς παρὰ τὸν ποιητὴν τῶν ὅλων ὑπὸ τοῦ προφητικοῦ πνεύματος ὡμολόγηται εἶναι. φυλαξάμενος λέγειν τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὴν σελήνην,ἃ γέγραπται τοῖς ἔθνεσι συγκεχωρηκέναι τὸν θεὸν ὡς θεοὺς προσκυνεῖν· καὶ τούτῳ τῷ λόγῳ ὡς παραχρώμενοι προφῆται πολλάκις λέγουσιν ὅτιὉ θεός σου θεὸς τῶν θεῶν ἐστι καὶ κύριος τῶν κυρίων, προστιθέντες ὁ μέγας καὶ ἰσχυρὸς καὶ φοβερὸς πολλάκις

And Trypho answered: "We will remember this interpretation of yours too, if you confirm this difficulty also by other passages. But for now, taking up the argument, show us that another God besides the Maker of all has been confessed by the prophetic Spirit to exist—being careful not to mean the sun and the moon, which it is written that God permitted the nations to worship as gods; and the prophets, as though misusing this manner of speech, often say, 'Your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords,' often adding 'the great and mighty and terrible.'"

特來弗回答說：「你這個解釋我們也會記住，只要你能用其他經文也鞏固這個難題。但現在，請你接續論證，向我們證明：在萬有的創造者之外，預言的靈確曾承認有另一位神存在——但你要小心，不要指日月，因為經上記著神准許外邦人把它們當作神來敬拜；眾先知也彷彿濫用這種說法，常說『你的神是萬神之神、萬主之主』，又常加上『至大、全能、可畏的』。」

3-55:2

Οὐ γὰρ ὡς ὄντων θεῶν ταῦτα λέγεται, ἀλλ ὡς τοῦ λόγου διδάσκοντος ἡμᾶς ὅτι τῶν νομιζομένων θεῶν καὶ κυρίων ὁ τῷ ὄντι θεός, ὁ τὰ πάντα ποιήσας, κύριος μόνος ἐστίν. Ἵνα γὰρ καὶ τοῦτο ἐλέγξῃ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, διὰ τοῦ ἁγίου Δαυῒδ εἷπεν· Οἱ θεοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν, νομιζόμενοι θεοί, εἴδωλα δαιμονίων εἰσίν, ἀλλ οὐ θεοί. Καὶ ἐπάγει κατάραν τοῖς ποιοῦσιν αὐτὰ καὶ προσκυνοῦσι

"For these things are not said as though they were gods, but as the word teaches us that, of those reckoned to be gods and lords, He who is truly God, who made all things, is the only Lord. For in order that the Holy Spirit might also expose this, it said through holy David: 'The gods of the nations, reckoned to be gods, are idols of demons, but not gods.' And it brings a curse upon those who make them and worship them."

「因為這些話並不是把它們當作神來說的，而是聖言教導我們：在那些被認為是神和主的當中，那位真正的神、創造萬有的，才是獨一的主。因為聖靈為要揭露這事，便藉著聖潔的大衛說：『列國的神，被認為是神的，乃是鬼魔的偶像，並不是神。』並且祂使咒詛臨到那些製造並敬拜它們的人。」

3-55:3

Κἀγώ· Οὐ ταύτας μὲν τὰς ἀποδείξεις ἔμελλον φέρειν, εἶπον, ὦ Τρύφων, δι ὧν καταδικάζεσθαι τοὺς ταῦτα καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα προσκυνοῦντας ἐπίσταμαι, ἀλλὰ τοιαύτας πρὸς ἅς ἀντειπεῖν μὲν οὐδεὶς δυνήσεται. Ξέναι δέ σοι δόξουσιν εἶναι, καίπερ καθ ἡμέραν ἀναγινωσκόμεναι ὑφ ὑμῶν, ὡς καὶ ἐκ τούτου συνεῖναι ὑμᾶς ὅτι διὰ τὴν ὑμετέραν κακίαν ἀπέκρυψεν ὁ θεὸς ἀφ ὑμῶν τὸ δύνασθαι νοεῖν τὴν σοφίαν τὴν ἐν τοῖς λόγοις αὐτοῦ, πλήν τινων, οἷς κατὰ χάριν τῆς πολυσπλαγχνίας αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἔφη Ἡσαΐας, ἐγκατέλιπε σπέρμα εἰς σωτηρίαν, ἵνα μὴ ὡς Σοδομιτῶν καὶ Γομορραίων τέλεον καὶ τὸ ὑμέτερον γένος ἀπόληται. Προσέχετε τοιγαροῦν οἶσπερ μέλλω ἀναμιμνήσκειν ἀπὸ τῶν ἁγίων γραφῶν, οὐδὲ ἐξηγηθῆναι δεομένων ἀλλὰ μόνον ἀκουσθῆναι

And I said: "It was not these proofs that I intended to bring, O Trypho, by which I know those who worship these and such things are condemned; but proofs against which no one will be able to speak. Yet they will seem strange to you, although they are read by you every day—so that even from this you may understand that, because of your wickedness, God has hidden from you the ability to perceive the wisdom in His words, except for a few, to whom, according to the grace of His great compassion, as Isaiah said, He left a seed for salvation, lest your race too should utterly perish like the Sodomites and Gomorrites. Give heed, therefore, to those things I am about to recall from the holy Scriptures, which need not even be interpreted, but only to be heard."

我說：「特來弗啊，我並不打算引用這些證據，雖然我知道靠這些就可定那些敬拜這類事物之人的罪；而是要引用那種無人能反駁的證據。然而這些對你們會顯得陌生，儘管你們天天都在誦讀它們——好讓你們從這事也能明白：因著你們的惡，神向你們隱藏了領悟祂話語中智慧的能力，只留給少數人；對這少數人，照著祂大憐憫的恩典，正如以賽亞所說，祂留下餘種以致得救，免得你們的民族也像所多瑪和蛾摩拉人那樣全然滅亡。所以，請你們留心我將要從聖經中提出的那些話，它們甚至不需要解釋，只需要聆聽。」

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