Dialogue with Trypho 113.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Joshua's second circumcision with stone knives prefigured Christ's circumcision of the heart by his words.

Greek text · Archambault 2:182

Ἐκεῖνος λέγεται δευτέραν περιτομὴν μαχαίραις πετρίναις τὸν λαὸν περιτετμηκέναι, ὅπερ κήρυγμα ἦν τῆς περιτομῆς ταύτης ἧς περιέτεμεν ἡμᾶς αὐτὸς Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ἀπὸ τῶν λίθων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων εἰδώλων, καὶ θημωνιὰς ποιήσας τῶν ἀπὸ ἀκροβυστίας, τουτέστιν ἀπὸ τῆς πλάνης τοῦ κόσμου, ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ περιτμηθέντων πετρίναις μαχαίραις, τοῖς Ἰησοῦ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν λόγοις. Ὅτι γὰρ λίθος καὶ πέτρα ἐν παραβολαῖς ὁ Χριστὸς διὰ τῶν προφητῶν ἐκηρύσσετο, ἀποδέδεικταί μοι.

English · Claude translation

“That one is said to have circumcised the people a second time with knives of stone, which was a proclamation of this circumcision with which Jesus Christ himself circumcised us from stones and other idols, and made heaps of those from the foreskin, that is, from the error of the world, circumcised everywhere with knives of stone, the words of our Lord Jesus. For I have proved that Christ was proclaimed in parables through the prophets as a stone and a rock.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:182 · 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

Josh 5:2 · allusion, high confidence
Josh 5:3 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 113.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/113/6/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 113.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/113/6/).