Dialogue with Trypho 53.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:236–238

Τὸ δὲ καὶ ὄνον ὑποζύγιον ἤδη μετὰ τοῦ πώλου αὐτῆς ὀνομάζειν τὸ προφητικὸν πνεῦμα μετὰ τοῦ πατριάρχου Ἰακὼβ ἐν τῇ κτήσει αὐτὸν ἔχειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ, ὡς προέφην, ἀμφότερα τὰ ζῶα κελεῦσαι ἀγαγεῖν, προαγγελία ἦν καὶ τοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς συναγωγῆς ὑμῶν ἅμα τοῖς ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν πιστεύειν ἐπʼ αὐτὸν μέλλουσιν. Ὡς γὰρ τῶν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν σύμβολον ἦν ὁ ἀσαγὴς πῶλος, οὕτως καὶ τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑμετέρου λαοῦ ἡ ὑποσαγὴς ὄνος· τὸν γὰρ διὰ τῶν προφητῶν νόμον ἐπικείμενον ἔχετε.

English · Claude translation

“And the prophetic Spirit's naming, together with the patriarch Jacob, the ass as a beast of burden already, with its foal, and his having it in his possession, and moreover his ordering his disciples, as I said before, to bring both animals, was a foretelling that those of your synagogue together with those of the nations would believe in him. For as the unsaddled foal was a symbol of those from the nations, so the saddled ass was of those from your people; for you have the law laid on you through the prophets.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:236–238 · 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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): ὑποζύγιον ἣδη → ὑποζύγιον ἤδη.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 53.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/53/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 53.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/53/4/).