Dialogue with Trypho 11.3
Summary: Isaiah and Jeremiah foretold a new law and a new covenant.
Greek text · Archambault 1:52–54
Ἢ σὺ ταῦτα οὐκ ἀνέγνως ἅ φησιν Ἡσαΐας; Ἀκούσατέ μου, ἀκούσατέ μου, λαός μου, καὶ οἱ βασιλεῖς πρός με ἐνωτίζεσθε, ὅτι νόμος παρʼ ἐμοῦ ἐξελεύσεται καὶ ἡ κρίσις μου εἰς φῶς ἐθνῶν. Ἐγγίζει ταχὺ ἡ δικαιοσύνη μου, καὶ ἐξελεύσεται τὸ σωτήριόν μου, καὶ εἰς τὸν βραχίονά μου ἔθνη ἐλπιοῦσι. Καὶ διὰ Ἱερεμίου περὶ ταύτης αὐτῆς τῆς καινῆς διαθήκης οὕτω φησίν· Ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, λέγει κύριος, καὶ διαθήσομαι τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰούδα διαθήκην καινήν, οὐχ ἣν διεθέμην τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν, ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ᾗ ἐπελαβόμην τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν ἐξαγαγεῖν αὐτοὺς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου.
English · Claude translation
“Or have you not read what Isaiah says? ‘Hear me, hear me, my people, and you kings, give ear to me; for a law will go out from me, and my judgment for a light to the nations. My righteousness draws near quickly, and my salvation will go out, and the nations will hope in my arm.’ And through Jeremiah he says thus about this same new covenant: ‘Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, and I will make with the house of Israel and the house of Judah a new covenant, not like the one I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.’
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- Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong diacritic); the editor's reference (Jer 31:31–32), printed in the text, removed): Ἤ σὺ ταῦτα → Ἢ σὺ ταῦτα; ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ᾖ ἐπελαβόμην → ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ᾗ ἐπελαβόμην; Αἰγύπτου [JÉR., XXXI, 31-32. → Αἰγύπτου..
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Justin, Dial. 11.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/11/3/).
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Justin, Dial. 11.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/11/3/).
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