Dialogue with Trypho 131.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:268–270

καὶ σημεῖον τοῦ σταυροῦσθαι μέλλοντος καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ὄφεων τῶν δακόντων ὑμᾶς, ὡς προεῖπον, γεγένηται (πάντα προλαμβάνοντος πρὸ τῶν ἰδίων καιρῶν τὰ μυστήρια χαρίζεσθαι ὑμῖν τοῦ θεοῦ, πρὸς ὃν ἀχάριστοι ἐλέγχεσθε ἀεὶ γεγενημένοι) καὶ διὰ τοῦ τύπου τῆς ἐκτάσεως τῶν χειρῶν Μωσέως καὶ τοῦ ἐπονομασθέντος Ἰησοῦ πολεμούντων τὸν Ἀμαλήκ, περὶ οὗ εἶπεν ὁ θεὸς ἀναγραφῆναι τὸ γεγενημένον, φήσας καὶ εἰς τὰς ὑμῶν ἀκοὰς Ἰησοῦ παραθέσθαι τὸ ὄνομα, εἰπὼν ὅτι οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ μέλλων ἐξαλείφειν ἀπὸ τῆς ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν τὸ μνημόσυνον τοῦ Ἀμαλήκ.

English · Claude translation

“and a sign of the one who was to be crucified was made also in the case of the serpents that bit you, as I said before (God taking beforehand every occasion to grant you the mysteries before their proper times, toward whom you are always shown to have been ungrateful), and through the type of the stretching out of Moses' hands and of him who was named Jesus, when they fought against Amalek, concerning which God commanded that what happened be recorded, saying that the name of Jesus should also be committed to your ears, saying that this is he who will blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:268–270 · 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

Num 21:8 · allusion, high confidence
Exod 17:11 · allusion, high confidence
Exod 17:14 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): πρὸς ὅν ἀχάριστοι → πρὸς ὃν ἀχάριστοι.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 131.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/131/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 131.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/131/4/).