Sophia Scriptura

Dialogue with Trypho 135.5

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

Summary: The promised seed of Jacob must be another people.

Greek text · Archambault 2:286–288

Καὶ τὰ μὲν τῆς γραφῆς ταῦτα· συννοεῖτε δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ ὅτι ἄλλο τί ἐστι τὸ ἐξ Ἰακὼβ σπέρμα νῦν λεγόμενον, οὐχ ὡς οἰηθείη τις ἂν περὶ τοῦ λαοῦ λέγεσθαι. Οὐ γὰρ ἐνδέχεται τοῖς ἐξ Ἰακὼβ γεγεννημένοις ἀπολιπεῖν ἐπείσαξιν τοὺς ἐξ Ἰακὼβ σπαρέντας, οὐδὲ ὀνειδίζοντα τῷ λαῷ, ὡς μὴ ἀξίῳ τῆς κληρονομίας, πάλιν, ὡς ὑπολαβόμενος, τοῖς αὐτοῖς ὑπισχνεῖσθαι.

English · Claude translation

“Such are the words of the Scripture; and you yourselves understand that the seed from Jacob now spoken of is something else, and not, as one might think, spoken of the people. For it is not possible for those born of Jacob to leave an introduction to those sown from Jacob, nor for him, reproaching the people as unworthy of the inheritance, to promise it again to the same ones as though accepting them.

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Source
Archambault 2:286–288 · 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)

Notes

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  • The text of this sentence is uncertain; the translation gives the probable sense.

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Justin, Dial. 135.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/135/5/).

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Justin, Dial. 135.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/135/5/).

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