Dialogue with Trypho 96.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:104–106

Καὶ γὰρ τὸ εἰρημένον ἐν τῷ νόμῳ, ὅτι Ἐπικατάρατος πᾶς ὁ κρεμάμενος ἐπὶ ξύλου, οὐχ ὡς τοῦ θεοῦ καταρωμένου τούτου τοῦ ἐσταυρωμένου, ἡμῶν τονοῖ τὴν ἐλπίδα ἐκκρεμαμένην ἀπὸ τοῦ σταυρωθέντος Χριστοῦ, ἀλλʼ ὡς προειπόντος τοῦ θεοῦ τὰ ὑφʼ ὑμῶν πάντων καὶ τῶν ὁμοίων ὑμῖν, μὴ ἐπισταμένων τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν πρὸ πάντων ὄντα καὶ αἰώνιον τοῦ θεοῦ ἱερέα καὶ βασιλέα καὶ Χριστὸν μέλλοντα γίνεσθαι.

English · Claude translation

“For what is said in the law, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,’ strengthens our hope, which hangs on the crucified Christ, not as though God cursed this crucified one, but as God foretelling what would be done by all of you and those like you, who do not know that this is he who existed before all things and was to become God's eternal Priest and King and Christ.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:104–106 · 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

Deut 21:23 · quotation, high confidence
Gal 3:13 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): Χριστόν μέλλοντα → Χριστὸν μέλλοντα.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 96.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/96/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 96.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/96/1/).