Dialogue with Trypho 120.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:218–220

Ἐπειδὴ δὲ τὰ ἀκόλουθα μηνύει ὅτι περὶ Χριστοῦ εἴρηται, οὕτω γὰρ ἔχουσι· Καὶ αὐτὸς ἔσται προσδοκία ἐθνῶν, οὐ περὶ τοῦ λεξειδίου συζητῆσαι ὑμῖν ἔρχομαι, ὅνπερ τρόπον οὐδὲ ἀπὸ τῶν μὴ ὁμολογουμένων ὑφʼ ὑμῶν γραφῶν, ὧν καὶ ἀνιστόρησα, ἀπὸ λόγων Ἱερεμίου τοῦ προφήτου καὶ Ἔσδρα καὶ Δαυΐδ, τὴν ἀπόδειξιν τὴν περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ποιήσασθαι ἐσπούδασα, ἀλλʼ ἀπὸ τῶν ὁμολογουμένων μέχρι νῦν ὑφʼ ὑμῶν· ἃ εἰ ἐνενοήκεισαν οἱ διδάσκαλοι ὑμῶν, εὖ ἴστε ὅτι ἀφανῆ ἐπεποιήκεισαν, ὡς καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν θάνατον Ἡσαίου, ὃν πρίονι ξυλίνῳ ἐπρίσατε, μυστήριον καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, τοῦ τέμνειν ὑμῶν τὸ γένος διχῆ μέλλοντος, καὶ τοὺς μὲν ἀξίους σὺν τοῖς ἁγίοις πατριάρχαις καὶ προφήταις τῆς αἰωνίου βασιλείας καταξιοῦν μέλλοντος, τοὺς δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν καταδίκην τοῦ ἀσβέστου πυρὸς σὺν τοῖς ὁμοίοις ἀπειθέσι καὶ ἀμεταθέτοις ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν πέμψειν ἤδη φήσαντος.

English · Claude translation

“But since what follows shows that it was spoken of Christ, for it runs thus, ‘And he shall be the expectation of the nations,’ I do not come to dispute with you about the little word, just as I did not try to make the proof about Christ from the Scriptures not acknowledged by you, which I quoted from the words of Jeremiah the prophet and Ezra and David, but from those acknowledged by you until now; which, if your teachers had understood them, know well that they would have made them disappear, as they did the account of the death of Isaiah, whom you sawed in two with a wooden saw, which was itself a mystery of Christ, who is about to cut your race in two, and to count the worthy worthy of the eternal kingdom with the holy patriarchs and prophets, and has said he will send the others to the condemnation of unquenchable fire with the like disobedient and unrepentant from all the nations.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:218–220 · 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

Heb 11:37 · echo, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Ascen. Isa. 5.1–14 (Ascension of Isaiah) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

The tradition that Isaiah was sawn in two (compare Heb 11:37) is told in the Ascension of Isaiah.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): τῶν μή ὁμολογουμένων → τῶν μὴ ὁμολογουμένων; τήν περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ → τὴν περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 120.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/120/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 120.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/120/5/).