Dialogue with Trypho 119.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: As Abraham was called out of his land, Christians have been called out of their former life.

Greek text · Archambault 2:212

Τί οὖν πλέον ἐνθάδε ὁ Χριστὸς χαρίζεται τῷ Ἀβραάμ; Ὅτι διὰ τῆς ὁμοίας κλήσεως φωνῇ ἐκάλεσεν αὐτόν, εἰπὼν ἐξελθεῖν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἐν ᾗ ᾤκει. Καὶ ἡμᾶς δὲ ἅπαντας διʼ ἐκείνης τῆς φωνῆς ἐκάλεσε, καὶ ἐξήλθομεν ἤδη ἀπὸ τῆς πολιτείας, ἐν ᾗ ἐζῶμεν κατὰ τὰ κοινὰ τῶν ἄλλων τῆς γῆς οἰκητόρων κακῶς ζῶντες· καὶ σὺν τῷ Ἀβραὰμ τὴν ἁγίαν κληρονομήσομεν γῆν, εἰς τὸν ἀπέραντον αἰῶνα τὴν κληρονομίαν ληψόμενοι, τέκνα τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ διὰ τὴν ὁμοίαν πίστιν ὄντες.

English · Claude translation

“What more, then, does Christ grant to Abraham here? That he called him with a like calling by his voice, telling him to go out from the land in which he lived. And he has called all of us by that voice, and we have already gone out from the way of life in which we lived wickedly according to the common ways of the other inhabitants of the earth; and with Abraham we shall inherit the holy land, receiving the inheritance for endless ages, being children of Abraham because of our like faith.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:212 · 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 12:1 · allusion, high confidence
Gal 3:7 · echo, high confidence
Heb 11:8 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 119.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/119/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 119.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/119/5/).