Dialogue with Trypho 45.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:200–202

Ἐπεὶ οἳ τὰ καθόλου καὶ φύσει καὶ αἰώνια καλὰ ἐποίουν εὐάρεστοί εἰσι τῷ θεῷ, καὶ διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τούτου ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει ὁμοίως τοῖς προγενομένοις αὐτῶν δικαίοις, Νῶε καὶ Ἐνὼχ καὶ Ἰακὼβ καὶ εἴ τινες ἄλλοι γεγόνασι, σωθήσονται σὺν τοῖς ἐπιγνοῦσι τὸν Χριστὸν τοῦτον τοῦ θεοῦ υἱόν, ὃς καὶ πρὸ ἑωσφόρου καὶ σελήνης ἦν, καὶ διὰ τῆς παρθένου ταύτης τῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ γένους τοῦ Δαυῒδ γεννηθῆναι σαρκοποιηθεὶς ὑπέμεινεν, ἵνα διὰ τῆς οἰκονομίας ταύτης ὁ πονηρευσάμενος τὴν ἀρχὴν ὄφις καὶ οἱ ἐξομοιωθέντες αὐτῷ ἄγγελοι καταλυθῶσι, καὶ ὁ θάνατος καταφρονηθῇ καὶ ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ παρουσίᾳ ἀπὸ τῶν πιστευόντων αὐτῷ καὶ εὐαρέστως ζώντων παύσηται τέλεον, ὕστερον μηκέτʼ ὤν, ὅταν οἱ μὲν εἰς κρίσιν καὶ καταδίκην τοῦ πυρὸς ἀπαύστως κολάζεσθαι πεμφθῶσιν, οἱ δὲ ἐν ἀπαθείᾳ καὶ ἀφθαρσίᾳ καὶ ἀλυπίᾳ καὶ ἀθανασίᾳ συνῶσιν.

English · Claude translation

“For those who did what is universally, naturally, and eternally good are pleasing to God, and will be saved through this Christ in the resurrection, like the righteous who were before them, Noah and Enoch and Jacob and any others there were, together with those who have recognized this Christ as the Son of God, who was before the morning star and the moon, and endured to be made flesh and born through this virgin of the race of David, so that by this dispensation the serpent that did evil from the beginning, and the angels made like him, might be destroyed, and death be despised, and at the second coming of Christ himself cease altogether from those who believe in him and live pleasingly, and afterwards be no more, when some are sent to judgment and condemnation of fire to be punished unceasingly, and others live together in freedom from suffering and corruption and grief and in immortality.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:200–202 · 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 110:3 (109:3 LXX) · allusion, high confidence
Ps 72:5 (71:5 LXX) · allusion, medium confidence
Gen 3:1 · allusion, medium confidence
1 Cor 15:26 · echo, medium confidence
Heb 2:14 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology, Eschatology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip (word split); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing iota subscript); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): Ἐνὼχ και Ἰακὼβ → Ἐνὼχ καὶ Ἰακὼβ; γεννηθήναι → γεννηθῆναι; κατα λυθῶσι → καταλυθῶσι; ἀθανασία συνῶσιν → ἀθανασίᾳ συνῶσιν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 45.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/45/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 45.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/45/4/).