Dialogue with Trypho 32.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:138

Καὶ ὁ Τρύφων παυσαμένου μου εἶπεν· Ὦ ἄνθρωπε, αὗται ἡμᾶς αἱ γραφαὶ καὶ τοιαῦται ἔνδοξον καὶ μέγαν ἀναμένειν τὸν παρὰ τοῦ παλαιοῦ τῶν ἡμερῶν ὡς υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου παραλαμβάνοντα τὴν αἰώνιον βασιλείαν ἀναγκάζουσιν· οὗτος δὲ ὁ ὑμέτερος λεγόμενος Χριστὸς ἄτιμος καὶ ἄδοξος γέγονεν, ὡς καὶ τῇ ἐσχάτῃ κατάρᾳ τῇ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ περιπεσεῖν· ἐσταυρώθη γάρ.

English · Claude translation

And when I had stopped, Trypho said, “Sir, these and such Scriptures compel us to expect one glorious and great, who receives the everlasting kingdom from the Ancient of Days as the Son of Man; but this one whom you call Christ was without honor and glory, so that he even fell under the last curse in the law of God; for he was crucified.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:138 · 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

Deut 21:23 · allusion, high confidence
Gal 3:13 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“The last curse in the law”: Deut 21:23, “cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”; see ch. 89–96.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): παυσαμὲνου → παυσαμένου.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 32.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/32/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 32.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/32/1/).