Dialogue with Trypho 49.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:218–220

Καὶ ὁ ἡμέτερος οὖν κύριος, ἔφην, τοῦτο αὐτὸ ἐν τοῖς διδάγμασιν αὐτοῦ παρέδωκε γενησόμενον, εἰπὼν καὶ Ἡλίαν ἐλεύσεσθαι· καὶ ἡμεῖς τοῦτο ἐπιστάμεθα γενησόμενον, ὅταν μέλλῃ ἐν δόξῃ ἐξ οὐρανῶν παραγίνεσθαι ὁ ἡμέτερος κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, οὗ καὶ τῆς πρώτης φανερώσεως κῆρυξ προῆλθε τὸ ἐν Ἡλίᾳ γενόμενον πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ, ἐν Ἰωάννῃ, τῷ γενομένῳ ἐν τῷ γένει ὑμῶν προφήτῃ, μεθʼ ὃν οὐδεὶς ἕτερος λοιπὸν παρʼ ὑμῖν ἐφάνη προφήτης· ὅστις ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰορδάνην ποταμὸν καθεζόμενος ἐβόα· Ἐγὼ μὲν ὑμᾶς βαπτίζω ἐν ὕδατι εἰς μετάνοιαν· ἥξει δὲ ὁ ἰσχυρότερός μου, οὗ οὐκ εἰμὶ ἱκανὸς τὰ ὑποδήματα βαστάσαι· αὐτὸς ὑμᾶς βαπτίσει ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ καὶ πυρί. Οὗ τὸ πτύον αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ διακαθαριεῖ τὴν ἅλωνα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν σῖτον συνάξει εἰς τὴν ἀποθήκην, τὸ δὲ ἄχυρον κατακαύσει πυρὶ ἀσβέστῳ.

English · Claude translation

“Our Lord too, then,” I said, “handed down in his teachings that this very thing would happen, saying that Elijah also would come; and we know that this will happen when our Lord Jesus Christ is about to come from heaven in glory; of whose first manifestation the Spirit of God that was in Elijah went before as herald, in John, who was a prophet among your race, after whom no other prophet has appeared among you; who, sitting by the river Jordan, cried: ‘I baptize you with water for repentance; but one stronger than I will come, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly clean his threshing floor and gather the wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:218–220 · 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

Matt 17:11 · allusion, high confidence
Luke 1:17 · echo, high confidence
Matt 3:11 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 3:12 · quotation, high confidence
Luke 3:16 · quotation, medium confidence
Luke 3:17 · quotation, medium confidence

Topics

Baptism

Notes

Notes on the original text

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

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 49.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/49/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 49.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/49/3/).