Dialogue with Trypho 13.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The washing Isaiah speaks of is not a ritual bath but the saving washing of faith through Christ's blood.

Greek text · Archambault 1:58

Οὐ γὰρ δή γε εἰς βαλανεῖον ὑμᾶς ἔπεμπεν Ἡσαίας ἀπολουσομένους ἐκεῖ τὸν φόνον καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἁμαρτίας, οὓς οὐδὲ τὸ τῆς θαλάσσης ἱκανὸν πᾶν ὕδωρ καθαρίσαι, ἀλλά, ὡς εἰκός, πάλαι τοῦτο ἐκεῖνο τὸ σωτήριον λουτρὸν ἦν, ὃ εἶπε, τὸ τοῖς μεταγινώσκουσι καὶ μηκέτι αἵμασι τράγων καὶ προβάτων ἢ σποδῷ δαμάλεως ἢ σεμιδάλεως προσφοραῖς καθαριζομένοις, ἀλλὰ πίστει διὰ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ, ὃς διὰ τοῦτο ἀπέθανεν, ὡς αὐτὸς Ἡσαΐας ἔφη, οὕτως λέγων·

English · Claude translation

“For Isaiah did not send you to a bath-house to wash away there murder and your other sins, which not even all the water of the sea could cleanse; but, as is reasonable, this was of old that saving washing which he spoke of, for those who repent and are cleansed no longer by the blood of goats and sheep, or the ashes of a heifer, or offerings of fine flour, but by faith through the blood of Christ and his death, who died for this reason, as Isaiah himself said, speaking thus:

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:58 · 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

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.

Scripture

Isa 1:16 · allusion, high confidence
Heb 9:13 · echo, medium confidence
Heb 10:4 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Baptism

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/13/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/13/1/).