Dialogue with Trypho 110.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christians are taken from the earth with the righteous Christ.

Greek text · Archambault 2:168

Ὑμεῖς δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν ὑμῶν συμβεβηκέναι τοῦτό φατε. Εἰ δὲ ἐξεβλήθητε πολεμηθέντες, δικαίως μὲν ὑμεῖς ταῦτα πεπόνθατε, ὡς αἱ γραφαὶ πᾶσαι μαρτυροῦσιν· ἡμεῖς δέ, οὐδὲν τοιοῦτον πράξαντες μετὰ τὸ ἐπιγνῶναι τὴν ἀλήθειαν τοῦ θεοῦ, μαρτυρούμεθα ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ, σὺν τῷ δικαιοτάτῳ καὶ μόνῳ ἀσπίλῳ καὶ ἀναμαρτήτῳ Χριστῷ ὅτι ἀπὸ γῆς αἰρόμεθα. Βοᾷ γὰρ Ἡσαΐας· Ἰδοὺ ὡς ὁ δίκαιος ἀπώλετο, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐκδέχεται τῇ καρδίᾳ· καὶ ἄνδρες δίκαιοι αἴρονται, καὶ οὐδεὶς κατανοεῖ.

English · Claude translation

“But you say that this has happened to your people. If you were driven out after being warred against, you have suffered these things justly, as all the Scriptures testify; but we, who have done no such thing since we came to know the truth of God, are testified by God to be taken from the earth together with the most righteous and only spotless and sinless Christ. For Isaiah cries: ‘Behold how the righteous one has perished, and no one lays it to heart; and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:168 · 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

Isa 57:1 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 110.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/110/6/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 110.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/110/6/).