Dialogue with Trypho 103.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:140–142

Ἐν γὰρ τοῖς ἀπομνημονεύμασιν, ἅ φημι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν ἐκείνοις παρακολουθησάντων συντετάχθαι, γέγραπται ὅτι ἱδρὼς ὡσεὶ θρόμβοι κατεχεῖτο, αὐτοῦ εὐχομένου καὶ λέγοντος· Παρελθέτω, εἰ δυνατόν, τὸ ποτήριον τοῦτο· ἐντρόμου τῆς καρδίας δηλονότι οὔσης καὶ τῶν ὀστῶν ὁμοίως καὶ ἐοικυίας τῆς καρδίας κηρῷ τηκομένῳ εἰς τὴν κοιλίαν, ὅπως εἰδῶμεν ὅτι ὁ πατὴρ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ υἱὸν καὶ ἐν τοιούτοις πάθεσιν ἀληθῶς γεγονέναι διʼ ἡμᾶς βεβούληται, καὶ μὴ λέγωμεν ὅτι ἐκεῖνος, τοῦ θεοῦ υἱὸς ὤν, οὐκ ἀντελαμβάνετο τῶν γινομένων καὶ συμβαινόντων αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

“For in the memoirs which I say were composed by his apostles and those who followed them, it is written that sweat poured down like drops of blood while he prayed and said, ‘Let this cup pass, if it is possible’; his heart and likewise his bones clearly trembling, and his heart being like wax melting into his belly; so that we may know that the Father willed his own Son to be truly in such sufferings for our sake, and may not say that he, being the Son of God, did not feel what happened and befell him.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:140–142 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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

Luke 22:44 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 26:39 · quotation, high confidence
Luke 1:3 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

“Composed by his apostles and those who followed them”: Justin distinguishes Gospels written by apostles and by their followers (e.g. Mark and Luke).
The bloody sweat is from Luke 22:44, a verse missing from some manuscripts; Justin's citation is early evidence for it.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 103.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/103/8/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 103.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/103/8/).