Dialogue with Trypho 102.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:130–132

Καὶ τό τε Ἐξηράνθη ὡς ὄστρακον ἡ ἰσχύς μου, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσά μου κεκόλληται τῷ λάρυγγί μου, ὁμοίως τῶν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ μελλόντων γίνεσθαι κατὰ τὸ τοῦ πατρὸς θέλημα προαγγελία ἦν. Ἡ γὰρ τοῦ ἰσχυροῦ αὐτοῦ λόγου δύναμις, διʼ ἧς ἀεὶ ἤλεγχε τοὺς συζητοῦντας αὐτῷ Φαρισαίους καὶ γραμματεῖς καὶ ἁπλῶς τοὺς ἐν τῷ γένει ὑμῶν διδασκάλους, ἐποχὴν ἔσχε δίκην πολυΰδρου καὶ ἰσχυρᾶς πηγῆς, ἧς τὸ ὕδωρ ἀπεστράφη, σιγήσαντος αὐτοῦ καὶ μηκέτι ἐπὶ Πιλάτου ἀποκρίνασθαι μηδὲν μηδενὶ βουλομένου, ὡς ἐν τοῖς ἀπομνημονεύμασι τῶν ἀποστόλων αὐτοῦ δεδήλωται, ὅπως καὶ τὸ διὰ Ἡσαΐου εἰρημένον καρπὸν ἐνεργῆ ἔχῃ, ὅπου εἴρηται· Κύριος δίδωσί μοι γλῶσσαν τοῦ γνῶναι ἡνίκα με δεῖ εἰπεῖν λόγον.

English · Claude translation

“And the words, ‘My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my throat,’ were likewise a foretelling of what he was to do according to the Father's will. For the power of his mighty word, by which he always refuted the Pharisees and scribes who disputed with him, and in a word the teachers of your race, was stopped like a spring abundant and strong whose water is turned away, when he was silent and would no longer answer anything to anyone before Pilate, as is shown in the memoirs of his apostles; so that what was said through Isaiah might also bear effective fruit, where it is said: ‘The Lord gives me a tongue to know when I should speak a word.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:130–132 · 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 22:15 (21:16 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Matt 27:14 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 50:4 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip (wrong letter); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): ὄσταακον → ὄστρακον; διʼ ἦς ἀεὶ → διʼ ἧς ἀεὶ; πηγῆς, ἦς τὸ ὕδωρ → πηγῆς, ἧς τὸ ὕδωρ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 102.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/102/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 102.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/102/5/).