Dialogue with Trypho 86.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:66

Ξύλον Ἐλισσαῖος βαλὼν εἰς τὸν Ἰορδάνην ποταμὸν ἀνήνεγκε τὸν σίδηρον τῆς ἀξίνης, ἐν ᾗ πεπορευμένοι ἦσαν οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν προφητῶν κόψαι ξύλα εἰς οἰκοδομὴν τοῦ οἴκου, ἐν ᾧ τὸν νόμον καὶ τὰ προστάγματα τοῦ θεοῦ λέγειν καὶ μελετᾶν ἐβούλοντο· ὡς καὶ ἡμᾶς βεβαπτισμένους ταῖς βαρυτάταις ἁμαρτίαις, ἃς ἐπράξαμεν, διὰ τοῦ σταυρωθῆναι ἐπὶ τοῦ ξύλου καὶ διʼ ὕδατος ἁγνίσαι ὁ Χριστὸς ἡμῶν ἐλυτρώσατο καὶ οἶκον εὐχῆς καὶ προσκυνήσεως ἐποίησε. Καὶ ῥάβδος ἦν ἡ δείξασα Ἰούδαν πατέρα τῶν ἀπὸ Θάμαρ διὰ μέγα μυστήριον γεννηθέντων.

English · Claude translation

“Elisha, casting a piece of wood into the river Jordan, brought up the iron head of the axe, with which the sons of the prophets had gone to cut wood to build the house in which they wished to recite and study the law and the commandments of God; as our Christ, by being crucified on the tree and by purifying us through water, has redeemed us, who had been sunk in the heaviest sins which we committed, and has made us a house of prayer and worship. And it was a rod that showed Judah to be the father of those born from Tamar through a great mystery.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:66 · 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

2 Kgs 6:1 · allusion, high confidence
2 Kgs 6:6 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 38:18 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 38:25 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Baptism, Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong diacritic)): ἀξίνης, ἐν ᾖ πεπορευμένοι → ἀξίνης, ἐν ᾗ πεπορευμένοι.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 86.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/86/6/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 86.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/86/6/).