Sophia Scriptura

Dialogue with Trypho 135.3

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

Summary: Christians, “hewn out” of Christ, are the true Israelite race.

Greek text · Archambault 2:286

Μήτι οὖν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰακὼβ τὸν πατριάρχην οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἐλπίζουσιν, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐπὶ τὸν Χριστόν, καὶ ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτοί; Ὡς οὖν Ἰσραὴλ τὸν Χριστὸν καὶ Ἰακὼβ λέγει, οὕτως καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐκ τῆς κοιλίας τοῦ Χριστοῦ λατομηθέντες ἰσραηλιτικὸν τὸ ἀληθινόν ἐσμεν γένος. Αὐτῷ δὲ μᾶλλον τῷ ῥητῷ προσέχωμεν.

English · Claude translation

“Do those from the nations, then, hope in Jacob the patriarch, and not in Christ, and you yourselves too? As, then, he calls Christ Israel and Jacob, so we, hewn out of the belly of Christ, are the true Israelite race. But let us attend rather to the text itself.

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Source
Archambault 2:286 · 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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Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing breathing)): οἱ απὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν → οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν.

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Justin, Dial. 135.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/135/3/).

Plain text
Justin, Dial. 135.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/135/3/).

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