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Catecharium

Dialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo

Chapter 104

2 sections

St. Justin Martyr

Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes

The next words are: Into the dust of death didst Thou bring me down, for many dogs surrounded me, an assembly of evil-doers compassed me about. They dug through my hands and my feet; they counted up all my bones; they themselves too considered and gazed upon me; they divided for themselves my garments, and over my clothing did they cast lots. These, as I have already said, were a prediction showing the kind of death by which the assembly of the evil-doers was to condemn Him, whom He also calls dogs, yes, and meaning hounds, because they themselves were the huntsmen, and they who did their utmost for His condemnation went to the meet. This too is recorded in the Memoirs of His apostles as having taken place.

And that after His crucifixion they who crucified Him divided His garments for themselves, I have already shown.

Trans. A. Lukyn Williams, D.D., Honorary Canon of Ely, Translations of Christian Literature, Series I, Greek Texts, 1930. Public domain.

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