# Dialogus cum Tryphone 138.1

Justin Martyr, Dialogus cum Tryphone, Chapter 138. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/justin-martyr/dialogus-cum-tryphone/138.1

Γινώσκετε οὗν, ὦ ἄνδρες, ἔφην, ὅτι ὲν τῷ Ἡσαίᾳ λέλεκται ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ πρὸς τὴν Ἱερουσαλημ, ὅτι Ἐπὶ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ τοῦ Νῶε ἔσωσά σε [cf. IS., LIV, 8-9?]. Τοῦτο δέ ἐστιν ὃ ἔλεγεν ὁ θεός. ὅτι τὸ μυστήριον τῶν σωζομένων ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ γέγονεν. Ὁ δίκαιος γὰρ Νῶε μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ, τουτέστι τῆς τε γυναικὸς τῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν τριῶν τέκνων αὑτοῦ καὶ τῶν γυναικῶν τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ, οἵτινες ἀριθμῷ ὄντες ὀκτώ, σύμβολον εἶχον τῆς ἀριθμῷ μὲν ὀγδόης ἡμέρας, ἐν ᾗ ἐφάνη ὁ Χριστὸς ἡμῶν ἀπὸ νεκρῶν ἀναστάς, δυνάμει δ᾿ ἀεὶ πρώτης [fol. 189] ὑπαρχούσης.

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Justin Martyr, Dialogus cum Tryphone, ed. Georges Archambault. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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