Sophia Scriptura

Dialogue with Trypho 123.9

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: As Israel was named from Jacob, Christians, begotten to God by Christ, are true children of God.

Greek text · Archambault 2:236

Ὡς οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἑνὸς Ἰακὼβ ἐκείνου, τοῦ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπικληθέντος, τὸ πᾶν γένος ὑμῶν προσηγόρευτο Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ἰσραήλ, οὕτως καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ γεννήσαντος ἡμᾶς εἰς θεὸν Χριστοῦ, ὡς καὶ Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ Ἰούδα καὶ Ἰωσὴφ καὶ Δαυΐδ, καὶ θεοῦ τέκνα ἀληθινὰ καλούμεθα καὶ ἐσμέν, οἱ τὰς ἐντολὰς τοῦ Χριστοῦ φυλάσσοντες.

English · Claude translation

“As, then, from that one Jacob, who was also called Israel, your whole race was named Jacob and Israel, so we too, from Christ who begot us to God, like Jacob and Israel and Judah and Joseph and David, are called and are true children of God, we who keep the commandments of Christ.

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Source
Archambault 2:236 · 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)
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Justin, Dial. 123.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/123/9/).

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Justin, Dial. 123.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/123/9/).

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