Dialogue with Trypho 134.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christ came to restore both free and slave, as Jacob's sons by free women and servants were equal.

Greek text · Archambault 2:282

Ἐπεὶ γὰρ τοῖς δυσὶν υἱοῖς τὸ τοῦ τρίτου σπέρμα εἰς δουλείαν ὁ Νῶε ἔδωκε, νῦν πάλιν εἰς ἀποκατάστασιν ἀμφοτέρων τε τῶν ἐλευθέρων τέκνων καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς δούλων Χριστὸς ἐλήλυθε, τῶν αὐτῶν πάντας καταξιῶν τοὺς φυλάσσοντας τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ, ὃν τρόπον καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐλευθέρων καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν δούλων γενόμενοι τῷ Ἰακὼβ πάντες υἱοὶ καὶ ὁμότιμοι γεγόνασι· κατὰ δὲ τὴν τάξιν καὶ κατὰ τὴν πρόγνωσιν, ὁποῖος ἕκαστος ἔσται, προλέλεκται.

English · Claude translation

“For since Noah gave the seed of the third son into servitude to the two sons, now again Christ has come for the restoration of both the free children and the servants among them, counting worthy of the same things all who keep his commandments; just as all the sons born to Jacob from the free women and from the servants became sons of equal honor; but it has been foretold according to their order and according to the foreknowledge of what each would be.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:282 · 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 9:25 · allusion, high confidence
Gal 3:28 · echo, medium confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 134.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/134/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 134.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/134/4/).