Dialogue with Trypho 120.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:216

Φησὶ γοῦν καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἰούδᾳ Οὐκ ἐκλείψει ἄρχων ἐξ Ἰούδα καὶ ἡγούμενος ἐκ τῶν μηρῶν αὐτοῦ, ἕως ἂν ἔλθῃ ᾧ ἀποκεῖται καὶ αὐτὸς ἔσται προσδοκία ἐθνῶν. Καὶ τοῦτο ὅτι οὐκ εἰς Ἰούδαν ἐρρέθη ἀλλʼ εἰς τὸν Χριστόν, φαίνεται· καὶ γὰρ Ἰούδαν πάντες οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν πάντων οὐ προσδοκῶμεν, ἀλλὰ Ἰησοῦν, τὸν καὶ τοὺς πατέρας ὑμῶν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ἐξαγαγόντα. Μέχρι γὰρ τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἡ προφητεία προεκήρυσσεν· Ἕως ἂν ἔλθῃ ᾧ ἀπόκειται· καὶ αὐτὸς ἔσται προσδοκία ἐθνῶν.

English · Claude translation

“He says, then, in the case of Judah too: ‘A ruler shall not fail from Judah, nor a leader from his thighs, until he comes for whom it is laid up; and he shall be the expectation of the nations.’ And it is plain that this was not spoken of Judah but of Christ; for all of us from all the nations do not expect Judah, but Jesus, who also brought your fathers out of Egypt. For the prophecy proclaimed until the coming of Christ: ‘Until he comes for whom it is laid up; and he shall be the expectation of the nations.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:216 · 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

Gen 49:10 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): Οὑκ ἐκλείψει → Οὐκ ἐκλείψει; ἕως ἄν ἔλθῃ ᾧ ἀποκεῖται → ἕως ἂν ἔλθῃ ᾧ ἀποκεῖται.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 120.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/120/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 120.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/120/3/).