Dialogue with Trypho 130.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:264

Ἐπειπεῖν δὲ ὑμῖν βούλομαι καὶ πρὸς τούτοις, ὦ ἄνδρες, ἔφην, καὶ ἄλλους τινὰς λόγους ἀπʼ αὐτῶν τῶν Μωσέως λόγων, ἐξ ὧν καὶ νοῆσαι δύνασθε ὅτι ἄνωθεν μὲν πάντας τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ὁ θεὸς διεσκόρπισε καὶ τὰ γένη καὶ γλώσσας· ἐκ πάντων δὲ τῶν γενῶν γένος ἑαυτῷ λαβὼν τὸ ὑμέτερον, γένος ἄχρηστον καὶ ἀπειθὲς καὶ ἄπιστον, δείξας τοὺς ἀπὸ παντὸς γένους αἱρουμένους πεπεῖσθαι αὐτοῦ τῇ βουλῇ διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὃν καὶ Ἰακὼβ καλεῖ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ ὀνομάζει, τούτους καὶ Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ, ὡς προέφην ἐν πολλοῖς, εἶναι δεῖ.

English · Claude translation

“And besides this, sirs,” I said, “I want to cite to you other words from the words of Moses himself, from which you can understand that from the beginning God scattered all men, both their races and languages; and taking for himself from all the races your race, a useless and disobedient and faithless race, he showed that those from every race who choose to obey his will through Christ, whom he also calls Jacob and names Israel, must be Jacob and Israel, as I said at length before.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:264 · 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

Deut 32:8 · allusion, medium confidence
Gen 11:9 · allusion, medium confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): Χριστοῦ, ὅν καὶ Ἰακὼβ → Χριστοῦ, ὃν καὶ Ἰακὼβ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 130.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/130/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 130.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/130/3/).