Dialogue with Trypho — Chapter 103

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καὶ τῶν διδασκάλων, adopted instead of κατὰ τὴν διδασκαλίαν, “according to their instructions.”

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ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄρους. Justin seems to have supposed that the Jews came on Christ from some point of the hill while He was in the valley below. ᾽Επὶ τοῦ ὄρους and ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρος have been suggested.

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Hos. x. 6.

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Ps. ii. 7; Matt. iii. 17.

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Matt. iv. 9, 10.

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Literally, “said.”

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Maranus says it is hardly to be doubted that Justin read, “I am poured out like water,” etc.

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Luke xxii. 44, 42.

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[Breast, rather. The (κοίλη) cavity of the nobler viscera.]

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Justin refers to the opinion of the Docetes, that Christ suffered in appearance merely, and not in reality.

Chapter 103

Chapter CIII.—The Pharisees are the bulls: the roaring lion is Herod or the devil.

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