Dialogue with Trypho 43.4

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

Summary: Isaiah also foretold how Christ would be born.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:190–192

Ἔτι καὶ ἵνα ὃν τρόπον γέγονεν ἐν κόσμῳ γεννηθεὶς ἐπιγνῶναι ἔχωσιν οἱ πιστεύοντες αὐτῷ ἄνθρωποι, διὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἡσαίου τὸ προφητικὸν πνεῦμα ὡς μέλλει γίνεσθαι προεφήτευσεν οὕτως·

English · Claude translation

“Further, so that men who believe in him might be able to know in what way he came to be born into the world, the prophetic Spirit through the same Isaiah prophesied how it would happen, thus:

About this passage

Source: Archambault 1:190–192 · 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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Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong diacritic)): διὰ τοϋ αὐτοῦ → διὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ.

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Justin, Dial. 43.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/43/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 43.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/43/4/).

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