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Dialogue with Trypho 14.8

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

Summary: The prophets speak of two comings of Christ: first in humility, then in glory.

Greek text · Archambault 1:68

Τῶν τε λόγων τούτων καὶ τοιούτων εἰρημένων ὑπὸ τῶν προφητῶν, ἔλεγον, ὦ Τρύφων, οἱ μὲν εἴρηνται εἰς τὴν πρώτην παρουσίαν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐν ᾗ καὶ ἄτιμος καὶ ἀειδὴς καὶ θνητὸς φανήσεσθαι κεκηρυγμένος ἐστίν, οἱ δὲ εἰς τὴν δευτέραν αὐτοῦ παρουσίαν, ὅτε ἐν δόξῃ καὶ ἐπάνω τῶν νεφελῶν παρέσται, καὶ ὄψεται ὁ λαὸς ὑμῶν καὶ γνωριεῖ εἰς ὃν ἐξεκέντησαν, ὡς Ὠσηέ, εἷς τῶν δώδεκα προφητῶν, καὶ Δανιὴλ προεῖπον, εἰρημένοι εἰσί.

English · Claude translation

“Of these and similar words spoken by the prophets, Trypho,” I said, “some were spoken of the first coming of Christ, in which he was proclaimed to appear without honor and without form and mortal; and others of his second coming, when he will appear in glory and above the clouds, and your people will see and recognize him whom they pierced, as Hosea, one of the twelve prophets, and Daniel foretold.”

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Source
Archambault 1:68 · 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
Topics
Christology, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Him whom they pierced” is from Zech 12:10, though Justin names Hosea; the coming on the clouds is Dan 7:13.

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Justin, Dial. 14.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/14/8/).

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Justin, Dial. 14.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/14/8/).

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