Dialogue with Trypho 40.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The Passover lamb was a type of Christ; his blood marks believers, who are God's house.

Greek text · Archambault 1:178

Τὸ μυστήριον οὖν τοῦ προβάτου, ὃ τὸ πάσχα θύειν ἐντέταλται ὁ θεὸς τύπος ἦν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, οὗ τῷ αἵματι κατὰ τὸν λόγον τῆς εἰς αὐτὸν πίστεως χρίονται τοὺς οἴκους ἑαυτῶν, τουτέστιν ἑαυτούς, οἱ πιστεύοντες εἰς αὐτόν· ὅτι γὰρ τὸ πλάσμα, ὃ ἔπλασεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν Ἀδάμ, οἶκος ἐγένετο τοῦ ἐμφυσήματος τοῦ παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ πάντες νοεῖν δύνασθε. Καὶ ὅτι πρόσκαιρος ἦν καὶ αὕτη ἡ ἐντολὴ, οὕτως ἀποδείκνυμι.

English · Claude translation

“The mystery of the lamb, then, which God commanded to be sacrificed as the Passover, was a type of Christ, with whose blood those who believe in him anoint their houses, that is, themselves, according to their faith in him. For you all can understand that the formation which God formed, Adam, became the house of the breath that came from God. And I prove thus that this commandment too was temporary.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:178 · 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

Exod 12:7 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 2:7 · allusion, high confidence
1 Cor 5:7 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 40.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/40/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 40.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/40/1/).