Sophia Scriptura

Dialogue with Trypho 68.5

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Trypho cites the promise that the Messiah will come from David's loins.

Greek text · Archambault 1:328

Καὶ ὁ Τρύφων· Πῶς οὖν ὁ λόγος λέγει τῷ Δαυῒδ ὅτι ἀπὸ τῆς ὀσφύος αὐτοῦ λήψεται ἑαυτῷ υἱὸν ὁ θεὸς καὶ κατορθώσει αὐτῷ τὴν βασιλείαν καὶ καθίσει αὐτὸν ἐπὶ θρόνου τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ;

English · Claude translation

And Trypho said, “How then does the word say to David that God will take for himself a son from his loins, and will establish his kingdom, and will set him on the throne of his glory?”

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Source
Archambault 1:328 · 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)
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Christology

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Justin, Dial. 68.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/68/5/).

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Justin, Dial. 68.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/68/5/).

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