Dialogue with Trypho 120.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Justin notes the variant reading of Gen 49:10.

Greek text · Archambault 2:216–218

Ἐλήλυθε τοιγαροῦν, ὡς καὶ ἐν πολλοῖς ἀπεδείξαμεν, καὶ προσδοκᾶται πάλιν παρέσεσθαι ἐπάνω τῶν νεφελῶν Ἰησοῦς, οὗ τὸ ὄνομα βεβηλοῦτε ὑμεῖς καὶ βεβηλοῦσθαι ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ ἐξεργάζεσθε. Δυνατὸν δὲ ἦν μοι, ἔφην, ὦ ἄνδρες, μάχεσθαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς περὶ τῆς λέξεως, ἣν ὑμεῖς ἐξηγεῖσθε λέγοντες εἰρῆσθαι· Ἕως ἂν ἔλθῃ τὰ ἀποκείμενα αὐτῷ· ἐπειδὴ οὐχ οὕτως ἐξηγήσαντο οἱ ἑβδομήκοντα, ἀλλʼ· Ἕως ἂν ἔλθῃ ᾧ ἀπόκειται.

English · Claude translation

“He has come, then, as we have shown in many places, and Jesus is expected to come again upon the clouds, whose name you profane and cause to be profaned in all the earth. And I could have contended with you, sirs,” I said, “about the reading which you explain as saying, ‘Until the things laid up for him come’; since the Seventy did not translate so, but, ‘Until he comes for whom it is laid up.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:216–218 · 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 49:10 · quotation, high confidence
Dan 7:13 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 120.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/120/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 120.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/120/4/).