Dialogue with Trypho 72.2

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

Summary: Jer 11:19, which Justin says had been removed.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:348

Καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν διὰ Ἱερεμίου λεχθέντων ταῦτα περιέκοψαν· Ἐγὼ ὡς ἀρνίον ἄκακον, φερόμενον τοῦ θύεσθαι. Ἐπʼ ἐμὲ ἐλογίζοντο λογισμόν, λέγοντες· Δεῦτε, ἐμβάλωμεν ξύλον εἰς τὸν ἄρτον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκτρίψωμεν αὐτὸν ἐκ γῆς ζώντων, καὶ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ μνησθῇ οὐκέτι.

English · Claude translation

“And from the words spoken through Jeremiah they cut out these: ‘I was like an innocent lamb led to be sacrificed. They devised a device against me, saying: Come, let us put wood into his bread, and let us wipe him out from the land of the living, and his name shall no longer be remembered.’

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Source

Archambault 1:348 · 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

Jer 11:19 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

Jer 11:19 is in fact found in Jewish and Christian manuscripts; Justin says it had been removed from some copies. “Put wood into his bread” was read by early Christians as a prophecy of the cross.

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Justin, Dial. 72.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/72/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 72.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/72/2/).

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