Dialogue with Trypho 76.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:6–8

Καὶ τὸ Ἡσαίαν φάναι· Τὴν γενεὰν αὐτοῦ τίς διηγήσεται; ἀνεκδιήγητον ἔχοντα τὸ γένος αὐτὸν ἐδήλου· οὐδεὶς γάρ, ἄνθρωπος ὢν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων, ἀνεκδιήγητον ἔχει τὸ γένος. Καὶ τὸν Μωσέα εἰπεῖν πλυνεῖν αὐτὸν τὴν στολὴν αὐτοῦ ἐν αἵματι σταφυλῆς, οὐχ ὃ καὶ ἤδη πολλάκις πρὸς ὑμᾶς παρακεκαλυμμένως προπεφητευκέναι αὐτὸν εἶπον ἐστίν, ὅτι αἷμα μὲν ἔχειν αὐτὸν προεμήνυεν, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων, ὃν τρόπον τὸ τῆς ἀμπέλου αἷμα οὐκ ἄνθρωπος ἐγέννησεν ἀλλʼ ὁ θεός;

English · Claude translation

“And Isaiah's saying, ‘Who shall declare his generation?’ showed that his descent could not be told; for no one who is a man of men has a descent that cannot be told. And Moses' saying that he would wash his robe in the blood of the grape, is it not what I have already told you many times he prophesied in a veiled way, that he foretold he would have blood, but not from men, just as it is not man but God who has begotten the blood of the vine?

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:6–8 · 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

Isa 53:8 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 49:11 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): οὐχ ὅ καὶ ἤδη → οὐχ ὃ καὶ ἤδη.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 76.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/76/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 76.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/76/2/).