Dialogue with Trypho 89.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The suffering foretold by the prophets marks Jesus out as the Christ.

Greek text · Archambault 2:80–82

Εἰ μὲν μὴ ἔμελλε πάσχειν ὁ Χριστός, φημὶ αὐτῷ ἐγώ, μηδὲ προεῖπον οἱ προφῆται ὅτι ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνομιῶν τοῦ λαοῦ ἀχθήσεται εἰς θάνατον καὶ ἀτιμωθήσεται καὶ μαστιχθήσεται καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀνόμοις λογισθήσεται καὶ ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἀχθήσεται, οὗ τὸ γένος ἐξηγήσασθαι ἔχειν οὐδένα φησὶν ὁ προφήτης, καλῶς εἶχε θαυμάζειν. Εἰ δὲ τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ χαρακτηρίζον αὐτὸν καὶ πᾶσι μηνύον, πῶς οὐχὶ καὶ ἡμεῖς θαρροῦντες πεπιστεύκαμεν εἰς αὐτόν; Καὶ ὅσοι νενοήκασι τὰ τῶν προφητῶν, τοῦτον φήσουσιν, οὐκ ἄλλον, εἰ μόνον ἀκούσειαν ὅτι οὗτος ἐσταυρωμένος.

English · Claude translation

“If the Christ were not to suffer,” I said to him, “and the prophets had not foretold that he would be led to death because of the transgressions of the people, and be dishonored and scourged and counted among the lawless and led as a sheep to the slaughter, whose descent the prophet says no one can declare, it would be right to wonder. But if this is what marks him out and indicates him to all, how can we too not have believed in him with confidence? And all who have understood the writings of the prophets will say it is he and no other, if only they hear that he was crucified.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:80–82 · 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 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 53:12 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 53:7 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 89.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/89/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 89.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/89/3/).