Dialogue with Trypho 116.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Zechariah's vision applies to Christians, cleansed of their sins by Christ and defended against the devil.

Greek text · Archambault 2:194–196

Ἀλλʼ ἵνα τὸν λόγον τὸν περὶ τῆς ἀποκαλύψεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποδιδῶ ὑμῖν, ἀναλαμβάνω τὸν λόγον καί φημι κἀκείνην τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν εἰς ἡμᾶς τοὺς ἐπὶ τὸν Χριστὸν ἀρχιερέα τοῦτον τὸν σταυρωθέντα πιστεύοντας γεγενῆσθαι· οἵτινες, ἐν πορνείαις καὶ ἁπλῶς πάσῃ ῥυπαρᾷ πράξει ὑπάρχοντες, διὰ τῆς παρὰ τοῦ ἡμετέρου Ἰησοῦ κατὰ τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ χάριτος τὰ ῥυπαρὰ πάντα, ἅ ἠμφιέσμεθα, κακὰ ἀπεδυσάμεθα, οἷς ὁ διάβολος ἐφέστηκεν ἀεὶ ἀντικείμενος, καὶ πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἕλκειν πάντας βουλόμενος, καὶ ὁ ἄγγελος τοῦ θεοῦ, τουτέστιν ἡ δύναμις τοῦ θεοῦ ἡ πεμφθεῖσα ἡμῖν διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐπιτιμᾷ αὐτῷ καὶ ἀφίσταται ἀφʼ ἡμῶν.

English · Claude translation

“But to give you the account of the revelation of the holy Jesus Christ, I take up the argument and say that that revelation too was made for us who believe in this crucified high priest, Christ; who, though we were living in fornication and in a word every filthy deed, have by the grace of our Jesus, according to the will of his Father, stripped off all the filthy evils with which we were clothed; against whom the devil always stands opposing and wishing to draw all to himself; and the angel of God, that is, the power of God sent to us through Jesus Christ, rebukes him, and he departs from us.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:194–196 · 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

Zech 3:2 · allusion, high confidence
Zech 3:4 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 116.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/116/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 116.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/116/1/).