Dialogue with Trypho 121.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The nations are blessed in Christ himself (Ps 72:17).

Greek text · Archambault 2:222

Καὶ ἡσυχίαν ἀγόντων αὐτῶν ἐπέφερον· Διὰ Δαυῒδ περὶ τούτου λέγων τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὦ φίλοι, οὐκέτι ἐν τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ εἶπεν εὐλογηθήσεσθαι τὰ ἔθνη, ἀλλὰ ἐν αὐτῷ. Οὕτω δὲ ἐκεῖ ἐστι· Τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, ὑπὲρ τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατελεῖ· καὶ ἐνευλογηθήσονται ἐν αὐτῷ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη. Εἰ δὲ ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ εὐλογεῖται τὰ ἔθνη πάντα, καὶ ἐκ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν ἐπὶ τοῦτον πιστεύομεν, καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός, καὶ ἡμεῖς οἱ διʼ αὐτοῦ εὐλογημένοι.

English · Claude translation

And as they kept silence I went on: “Speaking through David about this Christ, friends, he no longer said that the nations would be blessed in his seed, but in him. It runs thus there: ‘His name is forever; it shall rise above the sun; and all the nations shall be blessed in him.’ But if all the nations are blessed in Christ, and we from all the nations believe in him, then he is the Christ, and we are those blessed through him.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:222 · 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

Ps 72:17 (71:17 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 121.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/121/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 121.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/121/1/).