Dialogue with Trypho 52.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:232–234

Ὅτι οὖν οὐδέποτε ἐν τῷ γένει ὑμῶν ἐπαύσατο οὔτε προφήτης οὔτε ἄρχων, ἐξ ὅτου ἀρχὴν ἔλαβε, μέχρις οὗ οὗτος Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς καὶ γέγονε καὶ ἔπαθεν, οὐδʼ ἀναισχύντως τολμήσετε εἰπεῖν ἢ ἀποδεῖξαι ἔχετε. Καὶ γὰρ Ἡρώδην, ἀφʼ οὗ ἔπαθεν, Ἀσκαλωνίτην γεγονέναι λέγοντες, ὅμως ἐν τῷ γένει ὑμῶν ὄντα λέγετε ἀρχιερέα, ὥστε, καὶ τότε ὄντος ὑμῖν κατὰ τὸν νόμον τοῦ Μωσέως καὶ προσφορὰς προσφέροντος καὶ τὰ ἄλλα νόμιμα φυλάσσοντος, καὶ προφητῶν κατὰ διαδοχὴν μέχρις Ἰωάννου γεγενημένων, ὡς καὶ ὅτε εἰς Βαβυλῶνα ἀπήχθη ὁ λαὸς ὑμῶν, πολεμηθείσης τῆς γῆς καὶ τῶν ἱερῶν σκευῶν ἀρθέντων, μὴ παύσασθαι ἐξ ὑμῶν προφήτην, ὃς κύριος καὶ ἡγούμενος καὶ ἄρχων τοῦ λαοῦ ὑμῶν ἦν. Τὸ γὰρ ἐν τοῖς προφήταις πνεῦμα καὶ τοὺς βασιλεῖς ὑμῖν ἔχριε καὶ καθίστα.

English · Claude translation

“That, then, neither prophet nor ruler ever ceased in your race from the time it began until this Jesus Christ was born and suffered, you will not shamelessly dare to deny, nor can you prove otherwise. For even Herod, under whom he suffered, though you say he was an Ascalonite, you nevertheless say had a high priest in your race; so that even then you had one who offered offerings according to the law of Moses and kept the other observances, and prophets in succession until John; as even when your people were carried off to Babylon, when the land was warred against and the holy vessels taken away, a prophet did not cease from among you, who was lord and leader and ruler of your people. For the Spirit in the prophets both anointed and appointed your kings.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:232–234 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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)

Notes

Translation notes

The Greek of this sentence is confused, perhaps corrupt; the translation gives the general sense. “Ascalonite”: a tradition, also in Julius Africanus, that Herod's family came from Ascalon.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 52.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/52/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 52.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/52/3/).