Dialogue with Trypho 41.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:182–184

Καὶ ἡ τῆς σεμιδάλεως δὲ προσφορά, ὦ ἄνδρες, ἔλεγον, ἡ ὑπὲρ τῶν καθαριζομένων ἀπὸ τῆς λέπρας προσφέρεσθαι παραδοθεῖσα, τύπος ἦν τοῦ ἄρτου τῆς εὐχαριστίας, ὃν εἰς ἀνάμνησιν τοῦ πάθους, οὗ ἔπαθεν ὑπὲρ τῶν καθαιρομένων τὰς ψυχὰς ἀπὸ πάσης πονηρίας ἀνθρώπων, Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν παρέδωκε ποιεῖν, ἵνα ἅμα τε εὐχαριστῶμεν τῷ θεῷ ὑπέρ τε τοῦ τὸν κόσμον ἐκτικέναι σὺν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐν αὐτῷ διὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς κακίας, ἐν ᾗ γεγόναμεν, ἠλευθερωκέναι ἡμᾶς, καὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ἐξουσίας καταλελυκέναι τελείαν κατάλυσιν διὰ τοῦ παθητοῦ γενομένου κατὰ τὴν βουλὴν αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

“And the offering of fine flour, sirs,” I said, “which was handed down to be offered for those cleansed from leprosy, was a type of the bread of the Eucharist, which Jesus Christ our Lord handed down to be done in remembrance of the suffering he suffered for those who are cleansed in their souls from all wickedness of men, so that we may at the same time give thanks to God both for having created the world with all that is in it for man's sake, and for having set us free from the evil in which we were, and for having utterly overthrown the principalities and powers through him who became subject to suffering according to his will.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:182–184 · 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

Lev 14:10 · allusion, high confidence
Luke 22:19 · echo, high confidence
1 Cor 11:24 · echo, high confidence
Col 2:15 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Eucharist

Notes

Translation notes

“Eucharist” (εὐχαριστία) here names the bread; Justin also stresses its meaning of “thanksgiving” for creation and redemption.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong diacritic)): ἐν ᾖ γεγόναμεν → ἐν ᾗ γεγόναμεν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 41.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/41/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 41.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/41/1/).