Dialogue with Trypho 83.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The Jewish teachers apply Psalm 110 to Hezekiah.

Greek text · Archambault 2:46–48

Καὶ γὰρ τὸ Λέγει κύριος τῷ κυρίῳ μου· Κάθου ἐκ δεξιῶν μου, ἕως ἂν θῶ τοὺς ἐχθρούς σου ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν σου, εἰς Ἐζεκίαν εἰρῆσθαι ἐτόλμησαν ὑμῶν οἱ διδάσκαλοι ἐξηγήσασθαι, ὡς κελευσθέντος αὐτοῦ ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ ναοῦ καθεσθῆναι, ὅτε προσέπεμψεν αὐτῷ ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἀσσυρίων ἀπειλῶν, καὶ ἐσημάνθη αὐτῷ διὰ τοῦ Ἡσαίου μὴ φοβεῖσθαι αὐτόν. Καὶ ὅτι μὲν γέγονε τὰ λεχθέντα ὑπὸ Ἡσαΐου οὕτως, καὶ ἀπεστράφη ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἀσσυρίων τοῦ μὴ πολεμῆσαι τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐν ἡμέραις τοῦ Ἐζεκίου, καὶ ἄγγελος κυρίου ἀνεῖλεν ἐκ τῆς παρεμβολῆς τῶν Ἀσσυρίων εἰς ἑκατὸν ὀγδοήκοντα πέντε χιλιάδας, καὶ ἐπιστάμεθα καὶ ὁμολογοῦμεν.

English · Claude translation

“For your teachers dared to explain that ‘The Lord says to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet,’ was spoken of Hezekiah, as though he had been ordered to sit at the right side of the temple when the king of Assyria sent to him with threats, and it was indicated to him through Isaiah not to fear him. And that the things spoken by Isaiah happened so, and that the king of Assyria was turned back from making war on Jerusalem in the days of Hezekiah, and that an angel of the Lord slew out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand, we both know and admit.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:46–48 · 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

Ps 110:1 (109:1 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
2 Kgs 19:35 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 37:36 · allusion, high confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 83.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/83/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 83.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/83/1/).