Dialogue with Trypho 138.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:294–296

Γινώσκετε οὖν, ὦ ἄνδρες, ἔφην, ὅτι ἐν τῷ Ἡσαίᾳ λέλεκται ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ πρὸς τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ, ὅτι Ἐπὶ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ τοῦ Νῶε ἔσωσά σε. Τοῦτο δέ ἐστιν ὃ ἔλεγεν ὁ θεός, ὅτι τὸ μυστήριον τῶν σωζομένων ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ γέγονεν. Ὁ δίκαιος γὰρ Νῶε μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ, τουτέστι τῆς τε γυναικὸς τῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν τριῶν τέκνων αὑτοῦ καὶ τῶν γυναικῶν τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ, οἵτινες ἀριθμῷ ὄντες ὀκτώ, σύμβολον εἶχον τῆς ἀριθμῷ μὲν ὀγδόης ἡμέρας, ἐν ᾗ ἐφάνη ὁ Χριστὸς ἡμῶν ἀπὸ νεκρῶν ἀναστάς, δυνάμει δʼ ἀεὶ πρώτης ὑπαρχούσης.

English · Claude translation

“You know, then, sirs,” I said, “that it is said by God in Isaiah to Jerusalem: ‘In the flood of Noah I saved you.’ And what God said is this, that the mystery of saved men was enacted in the flood. For righteous Noah, with the other people at the flood, that is, his own wife and his three sons and his sons' wives, being eight in number, were a symbol of the eighth day in number, on which our Christ appeared risen from the dead, which is always first in power.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:294–296 · 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 54:9 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 7:13 · allusion, high confidence
1 Pet 3:20 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Christology, Baptism

Notes

Translation notes

Isa 54:9 is loosely cited.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): Γινώσκετε οὗν → Γινώσκετε οὖν; ὲν τῷ Ἡσαίᾳ → ἐν τῷ Ἡσαίᾳ; πρὸς τὴν Ἱερουσαλημ → πρὸς τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 138.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/138/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 138.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/138/1/).