Dialogue with Trypho 111.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Moses' outstretched hands and Joshua's name together figure the cross and the name of Jesus.

Greek text · Archambault 2:168

Καὶ ὅτι δύο παρουσίας συμβολικῶς γενήσεσθαι τούτου τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ ὑπὸ Μωσέως προελέγετο, προεῖπον διὰ τοῦ συμβόλου τῶν ἐν τῇ νηστείᾳ προσφερομένων τράγων. Καὶ πάλιν ἐν οἷς ἐποίησαν Μωσῆς καὶ Ἰησοῦς τὸ αὐτὸ προκηρυσσόμενον συμβολικῶς ἦν καὶ λεγόμενον. Ὁ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν τὰς χεῖρας ἐκτείνας ἐπὶ τοῦ βουνοῦ μέχρις ἑσπέρας ἔμενεν, ὑποβασταζομένων τῶν χειρῶν, ὃ οὐδενὸς ἄλλου τύπον δείκνυσιν ἢ τοῦ σταυροῦ, ὁ δὲ τῷ Ἰησοῦ ὀνόματι μετονομασθεὶς ἦρχε τῆς μάχης, καὶ ἐνίκα Ἰσραήλ.

English · Claude translation

“And I said before that the two comings of this Christ were foretold symbolically by Moses too, through the symbol of the goats offered at the fast. And again the same thing was proclaimed and spoken symbolically in what Moses and Joshua did. For one of them, stretching out his hands, remained on the hill until evening, his hands being held up, which shows the type of nothing other than the cross; and the other, renamed with the name of Jesus, led the battle, and Israel conquered.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:168 · 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

Lev 16:8 · allusion, medium confidence
Exod 17:12 · allusion, high confidence
Exod 17:13 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 111.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/111/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 111.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/111/1/).