Dialogue with Trypho 135.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:284

Καὶ ὅταν ἡ γραφὴ λέγῃ· Ἐγὼ κύριος ὁ θεός, ὁ ἅγιος Ἰσραήλ, ὁ καταδείξας Ἰσραὴλ βασιλέα ὑμῶν· οὐχὶ ἀληθῶς τὸν Χριστὸν τὸν αἰώνιον βασιλέα ἀκούσεσθε; Καὶ Ἰακὼβ γάρ, ὁ τοῦ Ἰσαὰκ υἱός, ὅτι οὐδέποτε βασιλεὺς γέγονεν, ἐπίστασθε καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἡ γραφή, πάλιν ἐξηγουμένη ἡμῖν τίνα λέγει βασιλέα Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ἰσραήλ, οὕτως ἔφη·

English · Claude translation

“And when the Scripture says, ‘I am the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who have shown Israel to be your king,’ will you not understand truly Christ, the eternal King? For you know that Jacob, the son of Isaac, never became a king; and therefore the Scripture, explaining to us again whom it calls King Jacob and Israel, said thus:

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:284 · 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

Isa 43:15 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): ὁ ἄγιος Ἰσραήλ → ὁ ἅγιος Ἰσραήλ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 135.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/135/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 135.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/135/1/).