Dialogue with Trypho 128.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:256

Καὶ μὴ νομίζητε, ὦ οὗτοι, ὅτι περιττολογῶν ταῦτα λέγω πολλάκις, ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ γινώσκω καί τινας προλέγειν ταῦτα βουλομένους, καὶ φάσκειν τὴν δύναμιν τὴν παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς τῶν ὅλων φανεῖσαν τῷ Μωσεῖ ἢ τῷ Ἀβραὰμ ἢ τῷ Ἰακὼβ ἄγγελον καλεῖσθαι ἐν τῇ πρὸς ἀνθρώπους προόδῳ, ἐπειδὴ διʼ αὐτῆς τὰ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἀγγέλλεται, δόξαν δέ, ἐπειδὴ ἐν ἀχωρήτῳ ποτὲ φαντασίᾳ φαίνεται, ἄνδρα δέ ποτε καὶ ἄνθρωπον καλεῖσθαι, ἐπειδὴ ἐν μορφαῖς τοιαύταις σχηματιζόμενος φαίνεται αἷσπερ βούλεται ὁ πατήρ· καὶ λόγον καλοῦσιν, ἐπειδὴ καὶ τὰς παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς ὁμιλίας φέρει τοῖς ἀνθρώποις.

English · Claude translation

“And do not think, my friends, that I say these things often from superfluous talk; but because I know that some wish to anticipate these things and say that the power which appeared from the Father of all to Moses or to Abraham or to Jacob is called an angel in its coming forth to men, since through it the things from the Father are announced to men; and glory, since it sometimes appears in an uncontainable vision; and sometimes a man and a human being, since it appears shaped in such forms as the Father wishes; and they call it Word, since it also brings to men the discourses from the Father.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:256 · 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.

Topics

Trinity, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Justin refutes a view, perhaps held by some Jews or Christians (later called Monarchian), that the Son is merely a temporary emanation of the Father.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): Μωσεῖ ἤ τῷ Ἀβραὰμ → Μωσεῖ ἢ τῷ Ἀβραὰμ; ὲν τῇ πρὸς ἀνθρώπους → ἐν τῇ πρὸς ἀνθρώπους; ἐπειδή ἐν ἀχωρήτῳ → ἐπειδὴ ἐν ἀχωρήτῳ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 128.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/128/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 128.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/128/2/).