Dialogue with Trypho 118.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Justin urges repentance before the judgment; Christ is judge of living and dead.

Greek text · Archambault 2:204–206

Ὥστε μᾶλλον παυσάμενοι τοῦ φιλεριστεῖν μετανοήσατε πρὶν ἐλθεῖν τὴν μεγάλην ἡμέραν τῆς κρίσεως, ἐν ᾗ κόπτεσθαι μέλλουσι πάντες οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν φυλῶν ὑμῶν ἐκκεντήσαντες τοῦτον τὸν Χριστόν, ὡς ἀπὸ γραφῆς ἀπέδειξα προειρημένον. Καὶ ὅτι ὤμοσε κύριος κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Μελχισεδέκ, καὶ τί τὸ προειρημένον ἐστίν, ἐξηγησάμην. Καὶ ὅτι περὶ τοῦ θάπτεσθαι μέλλοντος καὶ ἀνίστασθαι Χριστοῦ ἦν ἡ προφητεία τοῦ Ἡσαΐου, φήσαντος· Ἡ ταφὴ αὐτοῦ ᾔρται ἐκ τοῦ μέσου, προεῖπον. Καὶ ὅτι κριτὴς ζώντων καὶ νεκρῶν ἁπάντων αὐτὸς οὗτος ὁ Χριστός, εἶπον ἐν πολλοῖς.

English · Claude translation

“So rather stop being contentious and repent before the great day of judgment comes, in which all those of your tribes who pierced this Christ will mourn, as I have shown to be foretold from Scripture. And I have explained that the Lord swore ‘after the order of Melchizedek,’ and what was foretold. And I have said before that the prophecy of Isaiah, which said, ‘His burial has been taken away from the midst,’ was about the Christ who was to be buried and rise again. And I have said in many places that this Christ is himself the judge of all the living and the dead.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:204–206 · 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 12:10 · allusion, high confidence
Zech 12:12 · allusion, high confidence
Ps 110:4 (109:4 LXX) · allusion, high confidence
Isa 57:2 · quotation, high confidence
Acts 10:42 · echo, high confidence
2 Tim 4:1 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 118.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/118/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 118.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/118/1/).