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Dialogue with Trypho 72.4

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

Summary: Justin cites a saying on Christ's descent to the dead, attributed to Jeremiah.

Greek text · Archambault 1:348–350

Καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν λόγων τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἱερεμίου ὁμοίως ταῦτα περιέκοψαν· Ἐμνήσθη δὲ κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἅγιος Ἰσραὴλ τῶν νεκρῶν αὐτοῦ, τῶν κεκοιμημένων εἰς γῆν χώματος, καὶ κατέβη πρὸς αὐτοὺς εὐαγγελίσασθαι αὐτοῖς τὸ σωτήριον αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

“And from the words of the same Jeremiah they likewise cut out these: ‘The Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, remembered his dead who slept in the land of the tomb, and went down to them to preach to them the good news of his salvation.’

About this passage

Source
Archambault 1:348–350 · 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
Topics
Christology, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Not found in any surviving text of Jeremiah; Irenaeus quotes it as from Isaiah or Jeremiah. It is an early witness to belief in Christ's descent to the dead.

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Justin, Dial. 72.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/72/4/).

Plain text
Justin, Dial. 72.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/72/4/).

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