Sophia Scriptura

Dialogue with Trypho 139.5

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

Summary: Believers, slave or free, will inherit with Christ.

Greek text · Archambault 2:300

Ὅθεν οἱ πάντοθεν ἄνθρωποι, εἴτε δοῦλοι εἴτε ἐλεύθεροι, πιστεύοντες ἐπὶ τὸν Χριστὸν καὶ ἐγνωκότες τὴν ἐν τοῖς λόγοις αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν προφητῶν αὐτοῦ ἀλήθειαν, ἐπίστανται ἅμα αὐτῷ ἐν τῇ γῇ ἐκείνῃ γενησόμενοι καὶ τὰ αἰώνια καὶ ἄφθαρτα κληρονομήσειν.

English · Claude translation

“Hence men from everywhere, whether slaves or free, who believe in Christ and have recognized the truth in his words and those of his prophets, know that they will be with him in that land and will inherit eternal and incorruptible things.

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Source
Archambault 2:300 · 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 (stray accent)): ἐν τῇ γῇ ἐκείνῇ → ἐν τῇ γῇ ἐκείνῃ.

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Justin, Dial. 139.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/139/5/).

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Justin, Dial. 139.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/139/5/).

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