Dialogue with Trypho 68.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:330

Καὶ μάλα, ἔφη ὁ Τρύφων. Ἐὰν οὖν ἀποδείξω τὴν προφητείαν ταύτην τοῦ Ἡσαίου εἰς τοῦτον τὸν ἡμέτερον Χριστὸν εἰρημένην, ἀλλʼ οὐκ εἰς τὸν Ἐζεκίαν, ὥς φατε ὑμεῖς, οὐχὶ καὶ ἐν τούτῳ δυσωπήσω ὑμᾶς μὴ πείθεσθαι τοῖς διδασκάλοις ὑμῶν, οἵτινες τολμῶσι λέγειν τὴν ἐξήγησιν, ἣν ἐξηγήσαντο οἱ ἑβδομήκοντα ὑμῶν πρεσβύτεροι παρὰ Πτολεμαίῳ τῷ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων βασιλεῖ γενόμενοι, μὴ εἶναι ἔν τισιν ἀληθῆ;

English · Claude translation

“Certainly,” said Trypho. “If, then, I prove that this prophecy of Isaiah was spoken of this our Christ, and not of Hezekiah, as you say, shall I not in this too shame you out of obeying your teachers, who dare to say that the translation made by your seventy elders who were with Ptolemy the king of the Egyptians is in some points not true?

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:330 · 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

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

The Septuagint was believed to have been made by seventy (or seventy-two) Jewish elders at the request of Ptolemy II; Justin tells the story in 1 Apol. 31.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 68.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/68/7/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 68.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/68/7/).