Dialogue with Trypho 101.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christ acknowledges the patriarchs as his fathers and trusts in God, not his own strength.

Greek text · Archambault 2:124–126

Τὰ δὲ ἀκόλουθα τοῦ ψαλμοῦ ταῦτα ἐν οἷς λέγει· Ἐπὶ σοὶ ἤλπισαν οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν, ἤλπισαν καὶ ἐρρύσω αὐτούς· πρὸς σὲ ἐκέκραξαν καὶ ἐσώθησαν, ἐπὶ σοὶ ἤλπισαν καὶ οὐ κατῃσχύνθησαν· ἐγὼ δέ εἰμι σκώληξ καὶ οὐκ ἄνθρωπος, ὄνειδος ἀνθρώπων καὶ ἐξουδένωμα λαοῦ· δηλωτικά ἐστι τοῦ καὶ πατέρας αὐτὸν ὁμολογεῖν τοὺς ἐλπίσαντας ἐπὶ τὸν θεὸν καὶ σωθέντας ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, οἵτινες καὶ πατέρες ἦσαν τῆς παρθένου, διʼ ἧς ἐγεννήθη ἄνθρωπος γενόμενος, καὶ αὐτὸς σωθήσεσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ θεοῦ μηνύων, ἀλλʼ οὐ τῇ αὐτοῦ βουλῇ ἢ ἰσχύϊ πράττειν τι καυχώμενος.

English · Claude translation

“And what follows in the psalm, where it says, ‘In you our fathers hoped; they hoped, and you delivered them; to you they cried and were saved; in you they hoped and were not put to shame; but I am a worm and no man, a reproach of men and despised by the people,’ shows that he acknowledges as his fathers those who hoped in God and were saved by him, who were also fathers of the Virgin, through whom he was born and became man; and indicates that he himself would be saved by the same God, not boasting that he does anything by his own will or strength.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:124–126 · Georges Archambault, ed., Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon, 2 vols., Textes et documents pour l'étude historique du christianisme 8, 11 (Paris: Picard, 1909) · Greek text: G. Archambault, Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon (Paris, 1909), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Archambault. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Archambault (1909); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Scripture

Ps 22:4 (21:5 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 22:5 (21:6 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 22:6 (21:7 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 101.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/101/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 101.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/101/1/).