Dialogue with Trypho 31.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:134–136

Τότε ἤθελον ἐξακριβώσασθαι ὑπὲρ τοῦ τετάρτου θηρίου, τοῦ καταφθείροντος πάντα καὶ ὑπερφόβου, καὶ οἱ ὀδόντες αὐτοῦ σιδηροῖ καὶ οἱ ὄνυχες αὐτοῦ χαλκοῖ, ἐσθίον καὶ λεπτύνον καὶ τὰ ἐπίλοιπα αὐτοῦ τοῖς ποσὶ κατεπάτει· καὶ περὶ τῶν δέκα κεράτων αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς τοῦ προσφυέντος, καὶ ἐξέπεσον ἐκ τῶν προτέρων διʼ αὐτοῦ τρία, καὶ τὸ κέρας ἐκεῖνο εἶχεν ὀφθαλμοὺς καὶ στόμα λαλοῦν μεγάλα, καὶ ἡ πρόσοψις αὐτοῦ ὑπερέφερε τὰ ἄλλα. Καὶ κατενόουν τὸ κέρας ἐκεῖνο πόλεμον συνιστάμενον πρὸς τοὺς ἁγίους καὶ τροπούμενον αὐτούς, ἕως τοῦ ἐλθεῖν τὸν παλαιὸν ἡμερῶν, καὶ τὴν κρίσιν ἔδωκε τοῖς ἁγίοις τοῦ ὑψίστου, καὶ ὁ καιρὸς ἐνέστη, καὶ τὸ βασίλειον κατέσχον ἅγιοι ὑψίστου.

English · Claude translation

“‘Then I wished to learn exactly about the fourth beast, which destroyed all things and was exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron and whose claws of bronze, devouring and crushing, and trampling what was left with its feet; and about its ten horns on its head, and the one that grew up, and three of the former fell before it; and that horn had eyes and a mouth speaking great things, and its appearance surpassed the others. And I watched that horn making war against the saints and routing them, until the Ancient of Days came and gave judgment to the saints of the Most High, and the time came, and the saints of the Most High possessed the kingdom.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:134–136 · 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 7:19 · quotation, high confidence
Dan 7:20 · quotation, high confidence
Dan 7:21 · quotation, high confidence
Dan 7:22 · 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)): ἐκ τοῦ ἐνὸς → ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 31.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/31/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 31.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/31/5/).