Dialogue with Trypho 134.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:282–284

Ἐδούλευσεν Ἰακὼβ τῷ Λάβαν ὑπὲρ τῶν ῥαντῶν καὶ πολυμόρφων θρεμμάτων· ἐδούλευσε καὶ τὴν μέχρι σταυροῦ δουλείαν ὁ Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐκ παντὸς γένους ποικίλων καὶ πολυειδῶν ἀνθρώπων, διʼ αἵματος καὶ μυστηρίου τοῦ σταυροῦ κτησάμενος αὐτούς· Λείας ἀσθενεῖς ἦσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί· καὶ γὰρ ὑμῶν σφόδρα οἱ τῆς ψυχῆς ὀφθαλμοί. Ἔκλεψε Ῥαχὴλ τοὺς θεοὺς Λάβαν καὶ κατέκρυψεν αὐτοὺς ἕως τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας· καὶ ἡμῖν ἀπολώλασιν οἱ πατρικοὶ καὶ ὑλικοὶ θεοί.

English · Claude translation

“Jacob served Laban for the speckled and many-formed flocks; and Christ served even to the servitude of the cross for men of every race, varied and of many kinds, acquiring them by the blood and mystery of the cross. Leah's eyes were weak; and so indeed are the eyes of your souls. Rachel stole Laban's gods and hid them until this day; and for us too the ancestral and material gods have perished.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:282–284 · 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 30:32 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 29:17 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 31:19 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 31:34 · allusion, high confidence
Phil 2:7 · echo, medium confidence
Phil 2:8 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong letter)): Ἐβούλευσεν Ἰακὼβ → Ἐδούλευσεν Ἰακὼβ; οί ὀφθαλμοί → οἱ ὀφθαλμοί.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 134.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/134/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 134.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/134/5/).