Dialogue with Trypho 80.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Trypho asks whether Justin really believes Jerusalem will be rebuilt and the saints gathered with Christ.

Greek text · Archambault 2:30

Καὶ ὁ Τρύφων πρὸς ταῦτα ἔφη· Εἶπον πρός σε, ὦ ἄνθρωπε, ὅτι ἀσφαλὴς ἐν πᾶσι σπουδάζεις εἶναι ταῖς γραφαῖς προσπλεκόμενος. Εἰπὲ δέ μοι, ἀληθῶς ὑμεῖς ἀνοικοδομηθῆναι τὸν τόπον Ἱερουσαλὴμ τοῦτον ὁμολογεῖτε, καὶ συναχθήσεσθαι τὸν λαὸν ὑμῶν καὶ εὐφρανθῆναι σὺν τῷ Χριστῷ, ἅμα τοῖς πατριάρχαις καὶ τοῖς προφήταις καὶ τοῖς ἁγίοις τοῦ ἡμετέρου γένους ἢ καὶ τῶν προσηλύτων γενομένων πρὶν ἐλθεῖν ὑμῶν τὸν Χριστόν, προσδοκᾶτε, ἤ, ἵνα δόξῃς περικρατεῖν ἡμῶν ἐν ταῖς ζητήσεσι, πρὸς τὸ ταῦτα ὁμολογεῖν ἐχώρησας;

English · Claude translation

And Trypho said to this, “I told you, sir, that you are eager to be secure in everything by clinging to the Scriptures. But tell me, do you really confess that this place of Jerusalem will be rebuilt, and do you expect that your people will be gathered together and rejoice with Christ, together with the patriarchs and the prophets and the saints of our race, or of those who became proselytes before your Christ came? Or did you come to confess this so as to seem to get the better of us in the argument?”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:30 · 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.

Topics

Eschatology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 80.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/80/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 80.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/80/1/).