Dialogue with Trypho 39.4

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

Summary: Psalm 68 foretells the gifts of the ascended Christ.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:174–176

Κἀγὼ πρὸς αὐτόν· Ἄκουσον, ὦ οὗτος, ἔλεγον, ὅτι οὐ μέμηνα οὐδὲ παραφρονῶ· ἀλλὰ μετὰ τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνέλευσιν προεφητεύθη αἰχμαλωτεῦσαι αὐτὸν ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς πλάνης καὶ δοῦναι ἡμῖν δόματα. Εἰσὶ δὲ οἱ λόγοι οὗτοι· Ἀνέβη εἰς ὕψος, ᾐχμαλώτευσεν αἰχμαλωσίαν, ἔδωκε δόματα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις.

English · Claude translation

And I said to him, “Listen, my friend, I am not mad or out of my mind; but it was prophesied that after Christ's ascension into heaven he would take us captive from error and give us gifts. These are the words: ‘He went up on high, he led captivity captive, he gave gifts to men.’

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Source

Archambault 1:174–176 · 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

Ps 68:18 (67:19 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Eph 4:8 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing accent)): αἰχμαλωτεῦσαι αὐτον ἡμᾶς → αἰχμαλωτεῦσαι αὐτὸν ἡμᾶς.

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Justin, Dial. 39.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/39/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 39.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/39/4/).

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