Dialogue with Trypho 119.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christians are the new holy people foretold by the prophets.

Greek text · Archambault 2:210

Καὶ μετὰ τὸ ἀναιρεθῆναι τὸν δίκαιον ἐκεῖνον ἡμεῖς λαὸς ἕτερος ἀνεθήλαμεν, καὶ ἐβλαστήσαμεν στάχυες καινοὶ καὶ εὐθαλεῖς, ὡς ἔφασαν οἱ προφῆται· Καὶ καταφεύξονται ἔθνη πολλὰ ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ εἰς λαόν, καὶ κατασκηνώσουσιν ἐν μέσῳ τῆς γῆς πάσης. Ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐ μόνον λαὸς ἀλλὰ καὶ λαὸς ἅγιός ἐσμεν, ὡς ἐδείξαμεν ἤδη. Καὶ καλέσουσιν αὐτὸν λαὸν ἅγιον, λελυτρωμένον ὑπὸ κυρίου.

English · Claude translation

“And after that Righteous One was put to death, we sprang up as another people, and shot up as new and flourishing ears of grain, as the prophets said: ‘And many nations shall flee to the Lord in that day for a people, and they shall dwell in the midst of all the earth.’ And we are not only a people but a holy people, as we have already shown: ‘And they shall call it a holy people, redeemed by the Lord.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:210 · 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 2:11 (2:15 LXX) · allusion, high confidence
Isa 62:12 · quotation, high confidence
1 Pet 2:9 · echo, medium confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 119.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/119/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 119.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/119/3/).