Dialogue with Trypho 122.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Isa 42:6–7 refers to Christ and the illuminated nations.

Greek text · Archambault 2:228

Καὶ πάλιν ἐν ἄλλοις βοᾷ· Ἐγὼ κύριος ἐκάλεσά σε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ, καὶ κρατήσω τῆς χειρός σου καὶ ἰσχύσω σε, καὶ θήσω σε εἰς διαθήκην γένους, εἰς φῶς ἐθνῶν, ἀνοῖξαι ὀφθαλμοὺς τυφλῶν, ἐξαγαγεῖν ἐκ δεσμῶν πεπεδημένους. Ἐπεὶ καὶ ταῦτα, ὦ ἄνδρες, πρὸς τὸν Χριστὸν καὶ περὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν τῶν πεφωτισμένων εἴρηται. Ἢ πάλιν ὑμεῖς ἐρεῖτε· Πρὸς τὸν νόμον λέγει καὶ τοὺς προσηλύτους ταῦτα;

English · Claude translation

“And again he cries in other words: ‘I the Lord have called you in righteousness, and I will hold your hand and strengthen you, and I will set you for a covenant of the race, for a light of the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out those who are bound from their bonds.’ For these words too, sirs, were spoken to Christ and about the nations who have been illuminated. Or will you say again, ‘He is speaking to the law and to the proselytes’?”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:228 · 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

Isa 42:6 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 42:7 · quotation, high confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 122.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/122/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 122.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/122/3/).