Dialogue with Trypho 101.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The mockery at the cross fulfilled Ps 22:7–8.

Greek text · Archambault 2:126–128

Καὶ τὰ ἀκόλουθα· Πάντες οἱ θεωροῦντές με ἐξεμυκτήρισάν με, καὶ ἐλάλησαν ἐν χείλεσιν, ἐκίνησαν κεφαλήν· Ἤλπισεν ἐπὶ κύριον, ῥυσάσθω αὐτόν, σωσάτω αὐτόν, ὅτι θέλει αὐτόν· τὰ αὐτὰ ὁμοίως ἐγγίνεσθαι αὐτῷ προεῖπεν. Οἱ γὰρ θεωροῦντες αὐτὸν ἐσταυρωμένον καὶ κεφαλὰς ἕκαστος ἐκίνουν καὶ τὰ χείλη διέστρεφον, καὶ τοῖς μυξωτῆρσιν ἐν ἀλλήλοις διαρρινοῦντες ἔλεγον εἰρωνευόμενοι ταῦτα ἃ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀπομνημονεύμασι τῶν ἀποστόλων αὐτοῦ γέγραπται· Υἱὸν θεοῦ ἑαυτὸν ἔλεγε, καταβὰς περιπατείτω· σωσάτω αὐτὸν ὁ θεός.

English · Claude translation

“And what follows, ‘All who saw me sneered at me, and spoke with their lips, and shook their heads: He hoped in the Lord; let him deliver him, let him save him, since he delights in him,’ he likewise foretold would happen to him. For those who saw him crucified each shook their heads and curled their lips, and turning up their noses at one another said mockingly the things which are also written in the memoirs of his apostles: ‘He said he was the Son of God; let him come down and walk; let God save him.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:126–128 · 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 22:7 (21:8 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 22:8 (21:9 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Matt 27:39 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 27:40 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 27:43 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 101.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/101/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 101.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/101/3/).