Dialogue with Trypho 123.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:234–236

Καὶ τῷ διὰ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν νεύματι συντιθεμένου· Πάλιν, ἔλεγον ἐγώ, ἐν τῷ Ἡσαΐᾳ, ὠσὶν ἀκούοντες εἰ ἄρα ἀκούετε, περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ λέγων ὁ θεὸς ἐν παραβολῇ Ἰακὼβ αὐτὸν καλεῖ καὶ Ἰσραήλ. Οὕτω δὲ λέγει· Ἰακὼβ ὁ παῖς μου, ἀντιλήψομαι αὐτοῦ· Ἰσραὴλ ἐκλεκτός μου, θήσω τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐπʼ αὐτόν, καὶ κρίσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ἐξοίσει. Οὐκ ἐρίσει οὔτε κράξει, οὔτε ἀκούσεταί τις ἐν ταῖς πλατείαις τὴν φωνὴν αὐτοῦ· κάλαμον συντετριμμένον οὐ κατεάξει καὶ λίνον τυφόμενον οὐ μὴ σβέσει, ἀλλὰ εἰς ἀλήθειαν ἐξοίσει, κρίσιν ἀναλήψει καὶ οὐ μὴ θραυσθήσεται, ἕως ἂν θῇ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς κρίσιν· καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ ἐλπιοῦσιν ἔθνη.

English · Claude translation

And when he agreed with a nod of the eyes, I went on: “Again in Isaiah, if only you would hear with your ears, God, speaking of Christ in a parable, calls him Jacob and Israel. He says thus: ‘Jacob my servant, I will uphold him; Israel my chosen, I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall bring forth judgment to the nations. He shall not strive nor cry out, nor shall anyone hear his voice in the streets; a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, but he shall bring forth judgment to truth; he shall take up judgment and shall not be crushed, until he sets judgment on the earth; and in his name shall the nations hope.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:234–236 · 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

Isa 42:1 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 42:2 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 42:3 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 42:4 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 12:18 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“Jacob … Israel”: these names are in the LXX of Isa 42:1, not in the Hebrew.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (letters transposed)): ἐλπιοῦσιν ἔθην → ἐλπιοῦσιν ἔθνη.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 123.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/123/8/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 123.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/123/8/).