Dialogue with Trypho 111.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:170

Καὶ τοὺς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ δὲ σωθέντας, ὅτε ἀπώλλυντο τὰ πρωτότοκα τῶν Αἰγυπτίων, τὸ τοῦ πάσχα ἐρρύσατο αἷμα, τὸ ἑκατέρωσε τῶν σταθμῶν καὶ τοῦ ὑπερθύρου χρισθέν. Ἦν γὰρ τὸ πάσχα ὁ Χριστός, ὁ τυθεὶς ὕστερον, ὡς καὶ Ἡσαΐας ἔφη· Αὐτὸς ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη. Καὶ ὅτι ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ πάσχα συνελάβετε αὐτὸν καὶ ὁμοίως ἐν τῷ πάσχα ἐσταυρώσατε, γέγραπται. Ὡς δὲ τοὺς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἔσωσε τὸ αἷμα τοῦ πάσχα, οὕτως καὶ τοὺς πιστεύσαντας ῥύσεται ἐκ θανάτου τὸ αἷμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ.

English · Claude translation

“And the blood of the Passover, smeared on both doorposts and the lintel, rescued those who were saved in Egypt, when the firstborn of the Egyptians perished. For the Passover was Christ, who was later sacrificed, as Isaiah also said: ‘He was led like a sheep to the slaughter.’ And it is written that on the day of the Passover you seized him, and likewise at the Passover you crucified him. And as the blood of the Passover saved those in Egypt, so the blood of Christ will deliver from death those who have believed.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:170 · 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

Exod 12:7 · allusion, high confidence
Exod 12:13 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 53:7 · quotation, high confidence
1 Cor 5:7 · echo, high confidence
John 19:14 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip (stray letter); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): Ἡσαςΐας → Ἡσαΐας; καὶ τοῦς πιστεύσαντας → καὶ τοὺς πιστεύσαντας.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 111.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/111/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 111.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/111/3/).