Dialogue with Trypho 19.4
Summary: Lot, Noah, and Melchizedek were uncircumcised; Christ is priest after Melchizedek's order.
Greek text · Archambault 1:86
Λὼτ ἀπερίτμητος ἐκ Σοδόμων ἐσώθη, αὐτῶν ἐκείνων τῶν ἀγγέλων αὐτὸν καὶ τοῦ κυρίου προπεμψάντων. Νῶε, ἀρχὴ γένους ἄλλου, ἅμα τοῖς τέκνοις ἀπερίτμητος εἰς τὴν κιβωτὸν εἰσῆλθεν. Ἀπερίτμητος ἦν ὁ ἱερεὺς τοῦ ὑψίστου Μελχισεδέκ, ᾧ καὶ δεκάτας προσφορὰς ἔδωκεν Ἀβραάμ, ὁ πρῶτος τὴν κατὰ σάρκα περιτομὴν λαβών, καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτόν· οὗ κατὰ τὴν τάξιν τὸν αἰώνιον ἱερέα ὁ θεὸς καταστήσειν διὰ τοῦ Δαυῒδ μεμήνυκεν.
English · Claude translation
“Lot, uncircumcised, was saved out of Sodom, the angels themselves and the Lord escorting him. Noah, the beginning of another race, entered the ark uncircumcised with his children. Melchizedek, the priest of the Most High, was uncircumcised, to whom Abraham, the first to receive circumcision in the flesh, gave tithe-offerings, and he blessed him; after whose order God declared through David that he would appoint the eternal priest.
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- Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): ὁ θεός καταστήσειν → ὁ θεὸς καταστήσειν.
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Justin, Dial. 19.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/19/4/).
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Justin, Dial. 19.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/19/4/).
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