Dialogue with Trypho 35.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christ foretold both the heresies and the persecutions of his followers.

Greek text · Archambault 1:160

Ὥστε καὶ ἐκ τούτων ἡμεῖς, ὡς ἔφην, τὸν Ἰησοῦν καὶ τῶν μετʼ αὐτὸν γενησομένων προγνώστην ἐπιστάμεθα, καὶ ἐξ ἄλλων δὲ πολλῶν ὧν προεῖπε γενήσεσθαι τοῖς πιστεύουσι καὶ ὁμολογοῦσιν αὐτὸν Χριστόν. Καὶ γὰρ ἃ πάσχομεν πάντα, ἀναιρούμενοι ὑπὸ τῶν οἰκείων, προεῖπεν ἡμῖν μέλλειν γενέσθαι, ὡς κατὰ μηδένα τρόπον ἐπιλήψιμον αὐτοῦ λόγον ἢ πρᾶξιν φαίνεσθαι.

English · Claude translation

“So from these things too, as I said, we know that Jesus foreknew what would happen after him, and from many other things that he foretold would happen to those who believe in him and confess him as Christ. For all that we suffer, being put to death by our own kinsmen, he foretold would happen to us, so that in no way does any word or deed of his appear open to blame.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:160 · 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

Matt 10:21 · echo, high confidence
Matt 10:36 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Persecution

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 35.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/35/7/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 35.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/35/7/).