Dialogue with Trypho 140.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:300–302

Ὅθεν καὶ Ἰακώβ, ὡς προεῖπον, τύπος ὢν καὶ αὐτὸς τοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ τὰς δύο δούλας τῶν δύο ἐλευθέρων αὐτοῦ γυναικῶν ἐγεγαμήκει, καὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐτέκνωσεν υἱούς, εἰς τὸ προμηνυθῆναι ὅτι ὁ Χριστὸς προσλήψεται καὶ τοὺς ἐν γένει τοῦ Ἰάφεθ ὄντας ἀπὸ τοῦ Χαναὰν πάντας ὁμοίως τοῖς ἐλευθέροις καὶ τέκνα συγκληρονόμα ἕξει· ἅπερ ἡμεῖς ὄντες, συνιέναι ὑμεῖς οὐ δύνασθε, διὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ ζώσης πηγῆς πιεῖν, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ τῶν συντετριμμένων λάκκων καὶ ὕδωρ μὴ δυναμένων συνέχειν, ὡς ἡ γραφὴ λέγει.

English · Claude translation

“Hence Jacob too, as I said before, being himself a type of Christ, married the two servants of his two free wives, and begot sons from them, to show beforehand that Christ would receive all those of the race of Japheth who come from Canaan equally with the free, and would have children who are fellow heirs; which we are, and you cannot understand, because you cannot drink from the living spring of God, but from broken cisterns that cannot hold water, as the Scripture says.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:300–302 · 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 30:4 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 30:9 · allusion, high confidence
Jer 2:13 · allusion, high confidence
Rom 8:17 · echo, medium confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): τοὺς ὲν γένει → τοὺς ἐν γένει.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 140.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/140/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 140.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/140/1/).