Dialogue with Trypho 139.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:298

Καὶ γὰρ ἄλλο μυστήριον ἐπὶ τοῦ Νῶε προεφητεύθη τελούμενον, ὃ οὐκ ἐπίστασθε. Ἔστι δὲ τοῦτο. Ἐν ταῖς εὐλογίαις, αἷς εὐλόγει ὁ Νῶε τοὺς δύο υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ καταρᾶται· τὸν γὰρ υἱόν, συνευλογηθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ, τὸ προφητικὸν πνεῦμα καταρᾶσθαι οὐκ ἔμελλεν, ἀλλʼ, ἐπεὶ διʼ ὅλου τοῦ γένους τοῦ ἐπιγελάσαντος τῇ γυμνώσει υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ ἡ προστίμησις τοῦ ἁμαρτήματος εἶναι ἔμελλεν, ἀπὸ τοῦ υἱοῦ τὴν κατάραν πεποίηται.

English · Claude translation

“For another mystery too was prophesied as fulfilled in the time of Noah, which you do not know. It is this. In the blessings with which Noah blessed his two sons, he also curses his son's son; for the prophetic Spirit was not going to curse the son, who had been blessed by God together with the others; but since the penalty of the sin was to fall on the whole race of the one who mocked his father's nakedness, he made the curse begin from the son.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:298 · 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

Gen 9:22 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 9:25 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 9:1 · allusion, medium confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing accent)): υἱοὺς αὐτου → υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 139.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/139/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 139.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/139/1/).