Dialogue with Trypho 52.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Jacob's blessing of Judah foretold Christ's two comings.

Greek text · Archambault 1:230

Καὶ διὰ Ἰακὼβ δὲ τοῦ πατριάρχου προεφητεύθη ὅτι δύο τοῦ Χριστοῦ παρουσίαι ἔσονται, καὶ ὅτι ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ παθητὸς ἔσται, καὶ ὅτι μετὰ τὸ αὐτὸν ἐλθεῖν οὔτε προφήτης οὔτε βασιλεὺς ἐν τῷ γένει ὑμῶν, ἐπήνεγκα, καὶ ὅτι τὰ ἔθνη, πιστεύοντα ἐπὶ τὸν παθητὸν Χριστόν, πάλιν παραγενησόμενον προσδοκήσει. Ἐν παραβολῇ δὲ καὶ παρακεκαλυμμένως τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον διὰ τοῦτο αὐτὰ ἐλελαλήκει, ἔφην.

English · Claude translation

“And through Jacob the patriarch too it was prophesied that there would be two comings of Christ, and that in the first he would suffer, and that after he came there would be neither prophet nor king in your race,” I added, “and that the nations, believing in the suffering Christ, would expect him to come again. The Holy Spirit had spoken these things in a parable and in a veiled way for this reason,” I said.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:230 · 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.

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 52.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/52/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 52.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/52/1/).