Dialogue with Trypho 31.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:134

Καὶ ἐδόθη αὐτῷ ἐξουσία καὶ τιμὴ βασιλική, καὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη τῆς γῆς κατὰ γένη καὶ πᾶσα δόξα λατρεύουσα· καὶ ἡ ἐξουσία αὐτοῦ ἐξουσία αἰώνιος, ἥτις οὐ μὴ ἀρθῇ, καὶ ἡ βασιλεία αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ φθαρῇ. Καὶ ἔφριξε τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐν τῇ ἔξει μου, καὶ αἱ ὁράσεις τῆς κεφαλῆς μου ἐτάρασσόν με. Καὶ προσῆλθον πρὸς ἕνα τῶν ἑστώτων, καὶ τὴν ἀκρίβειαν ἐζήτουν παρʼ αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ πάντων τούτων. Ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ λέγει μοι καὶ τὴν κρίσιν τῶν λόγων ἐδήλωσέ μοι· ταῦτα τὰ θηρία τὰ μεγάλα εἰσὶ τέσσαρες βασιλεῖαι, αἳ ἀπολοῦνται ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, καὶ οὐ παραλήψονται τὴν βασιλείαν ἕως αἰῶνος καὶ ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος τῶν αἰώνων.

English · Claude translation

“‘And to him was given authority and royal honor, and all the nations of the earth by their races, and all glory, serving him; and his authority is an everlasting authority, which shall not be taken away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed. And my spirit shuddered within me, and the visions of my head troubled me. And I came near to one of those who stood by, and sought from him the exact meaning of all these things. And he answered and told me, and made known to me the interpretation of the words: These great beasts are four kingdoms, which shall perish from the earth; and they shall not receive the kingdom forever, and to the age of ages.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:134 · 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

Dan 7:14 · quotation, high confidence
Dan 7:15 · quotation, high confidence
Dan 7:16 · quotation, high confidence
Dan 7:17 · quotation, high confidence
Dan 7:18 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): πρὸς ἔνα τῶν → πρὸς ἕνα τῶν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 31.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/31/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 31.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/31/4/).