Dialogue with Trypho 135.6

Summary: There are two houses of Jacob: one of flesh, one of faith and Spirit.

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Greek text · Archambault 2:288

Ἀλλʼ ὅνπερ τρόπον ἐκεῖ φησιν ὁ προφήτης· Καὶ νῦν σὺ οἶκος τοῦ Ἰακώβ, δεῦρο καὶ πορευθῶμεν ἐν φωτὶ κυρίου· ἀνῆκε γὰρ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ, τὸν οἶκον Ἰακώβ, ὅτι ἐπλήσθη ἡ χώρα αὐτῶν, ὡς τὸ ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς, μαντειῶν καὶ κληδονισμῶν· οὕτω καὶ ἐνθάδε δεῖ νοεῖν ἡμᾶς δύο σπέρματα Ἰούδα καὶ δύο γένη, ὡς δύο οἴκους Ἰακώβ, τὸν μὲν ἐξ αἵματος καὶ σαρκός, τὸν δὲ ἐκ πίστεως καὶ πνεύματος γεγεννημένον.

English · Claude translation

“But just as the prophet says there, ‘And now, house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord; for he has let go his people, the house of Jacob, because their land was filled, as at the beginning, with divinations and omens’; so here too we must understand two seeds of Judah and two races, like two houses of Jacob, the one born of blood and flesh, the other of faith and the Spirit.

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Archambault 2:288 · 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
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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.
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  • Digital text corrected (damaged spot in the digital text; restored from the sense): καὶ δ(??)ο γένη → καὶ δύο γένη.

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Justin, Dial. 135.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/135/6/).

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Justin, Dial. 135.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/135/6/).

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