Dialogue with Trypho 51.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:230

Εἰρήκει δὲ περὶ τοῦ μηκέτι γενήσεσθαι ἐν τῷ γένει ὑμῶν προφήτην καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἐπιγνῶναι ὅτι ἡ πάλαι κηρυσσομένη ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ καινὴ διαθήκη διαταχθήσεσθαι ἤδη τότε παρῆν, τουτέστιν αὐτὸς ὢν ὁ Χριστός, οὕτως· Ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται μέχρι Ἰωάννου τοῦ βαπτιστοῦ· ἐξ ὅτου ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν βιάζεται, καὶ βιασταὶ ἁρπάζουσιν αὐτήν. Καὶ εἰ θέλετε δέξασθαι, αὐτός ἐστιν Ἡλίας ὁ μέλλων ἔρχεσθαι. Ὁ ἔχων ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω.

English · Claude translation

“And he had spoken about there being no more prophets in your race, and about recognizing that the new covenant long proclaimed by God to be established was then already present, that is, that he himself was the Christ, thus: ‘The law and the prophets were until John the Baptist; from that time the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:230 · 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

Matt 11:12 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 11:13 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 11:14 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 11:15 · quotation, high confidence
Luke 16:16 · quotation, medium confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): καινή διαθήκη → καινὴ διαθήκη.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 51.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/51/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 51.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/51/3/).