Dialogue with Trypho 49.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:218

Κἀγὼ πάλιν ἐπυθόμην αὐτοῦ· Οὐχὶ Ἡλίαν φησὶν ὁ λόγος διὰ Ζαχαρίου ἐλεύσεσθαι πρὸ τῆς ἡμέρας τῆς μεγάλης καὶ φοβερᾶς ταύτης τοῦ κυρίου; Κἀκεῖνος ἀπεκρίνατο· Μάλιστα. Ἐὰν οὖν ὁ λόγος ἀναγκάζῃ ὁμολογεῖν ὅτι δύο παρουσίαι τοῦ Χριστοῦ προεφητεύοντο γενησόμεναι, μία μέν, ἐν ᾗ παθητὸς καὶ ἄτιμος καὶ ἀειδὴς φανήσεται, ἡ δὲ ἑτέρα, ἐν ᾗ καὶ ἔνδοξος καὶ κριτὴς ἁπάντων ἐλεύσεται, ὡς καὶ ἐν πολλοῖς τοῖς προλελεγμένοις ἀποδέδεικται, οὐχὶ τῆς φοβερᾶς καὶ μεγάλης ἡμέρας τουτέστι τῆς δευτέρας παρουσίας αὐτοῦ, πρόοδον γενήσεσθαι τὸν Ἡλίαν νοήσομεν τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ κεκηρυχέναι; Μάλιστα, ἀπεκρίνατο.

English · Claude translation

And I asked him again, “Does not the word say through Zechariah that Elijah will come before the great and terrible day of the Lord?” And he answered, “Certainly.” “If, then, the word compels us to admit that two comings of Christ were prophesied, one in which he would appear subject to suffering and without honor and form, and the other in which he will come both glorious and judge of all, as has been proved in many of the things said before, shall we not understand that the word of God proclaimed that Elijah would be the forerunner of the great and terrible day, that is, of his second coming?” “Certainly,” he answered.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:218 · 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

Mal 4:5 (3:22 LXX) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Eschatology, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

The prophecy is Malachi's (Mal 4:5), not Zechariah's; Justin, or his text, names Zechariah.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slips against Archambault's printed text (accents)): ἐν ᾖ παθητός καὶ → ἐν ᾗ παθητὸς καὶ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 49.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/49/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 49.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/49/2/).