Sophia Scriptura

Dialogue with Trypho 40.2

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

Summary: The Passover could be sacrificed only in Jerusalem, which God knew would fall.

Greek text · Archambault 1:178–180

Οὐδαμοῦ θύεσθαι τὸ πρόβατον τοῦ πάσχα ὁ θεὸς συγχωρεῖ, εἰ μὴ ἐπὶ τόπῳ ᾧ ἐπικέκληται τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, εἰδὼς ὅτι ἐλεύσονται ἡμέραι μετὰ τὸ παθεῖν τὸν Χριστόν, ὅτε καὶ ὁ τόπος τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ τοῖς ἐχθροῖς ὑμῶν παραδοθήσεται καὶ παύσονται ἅπασαι ἁπλῶς προσφοραὶ γινόμεναι.

English · Claude translation

“God does not allow the Passover lamb to be sacrificed anywhere except in the place where his name is called on, knowing that days would come, after Christ's suffering, when the place of Jerusalem would be handed over to your enemies, and all offerings whatever would cease.

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Source
Archambault 1:178–180 · 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)
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Justin, Dial. 40.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/40/2/).

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Justin, Dial. 40.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/40/2/).

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