Dialogue with Trypho 51.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christ's own predictions of his passion, return, and the rise of heresies have been fulfilled.

Greek text · Archambault 1:228–230

Εἰ δὲ Ἰωάννης μὲν προελήλυθε βοῶν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις μετανοεῖν, καὶ Χριστὸς ἔτι αὐτοῦ καθεζομένου ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἰορδάνου ποταμοῦ ἐπελθὼν ἔπαυσέ τε αὐτὸν τοῦ προφητεύειν καὶ βαπτίζειν, καὶ εὐηγγελίζετο, καὶ αὐτὸς λέγων ὅτι ἐγγύς ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν, καὶ ὅτι δεῖ αὐτὸν πολλὰ παθεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν γραμματέων καὶ φαρισαίων, καὶ σταυρωθῆναι καὶ τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἀναστῆναι, καὶ πάλιν παραγενήσεσθαι ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ τότε τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ συμπιεῖν πάλιν καὶ συμφαγεῖν, καὶ ἐν τῷ μεταξὺ τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ χρόνῳ, ὡς προέφην, γενήσεσθαι αἱρέσεις καὶ ψευδοπροφήτας ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ προεμήνυσε, καὶ οὕτω φαίνεται ὄντα· πῶς ἔτι ἀμφιβάλλειν ἔστιν, ἔργῳ πεισθῆναι ὑμῶν ἐχόντων;

English · Claude translation

“But if John came first, crying to men to repent, and Christ, while John was still sitting by the river Jordan, came and put an end to his prophesying and baptizing, and preached the gospel, himself saying that the kingdom of heaven is at hand, and that he must suffer many things from the scribes and Pharisees, and be crucified and rise on the third day, and come again in Jerusalem, and then drink and eat again with his disciples; and foretold that in the time between his comings, as I said before, heresies and false prophets would arise in his name, and these things are plainly so: how can you still doubt, when you can be persuaded by the facts?

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:228–230 · 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

Matt 3:2 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 4:17 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 16:21 · allusion, high confidence
Luke 9:22 · allusion, medium confidence
Matt 26:29 · allusion, medium confidence
Matt 24:11 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Christology, Heresy

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 51.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/51/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 51.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/51/2/).