Dialogue with Trypho 36.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Justin will first show that Christ is called God and Lord of hosts.

Greek text · Archambault 1:162

Κἀγώ· Ὡς βούλει, ὦ Τρύφων, ἐλεύσομαι πρὸς ἃς βούλει ταύτας ἀποδείξεις ἐν τῷ ἁρμόζοντι τόπῳ, ἔφην· τανῦν δὲ συγχωρήσεις μοι πρῶτον ἐπιμνησθῆναι ὧνπερ βούλομαι προφητειῶν, εἰς ἐπίδειξιν ὅτι καὶ θεὸς καὶ κύριος τῶν δυνάμεων ὁ Χριστὸς καὶ Ἰακὼβ καλεῖται ἐν παραβολῇ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, καὶ οἱ παρʼ ὑμῖν ἐξηγηταί, ὡς θεὸς βοᾷ, ἀνόητοί εἰσι, μὴ εἰς τὸν Χριστὸν εἰρῆσθαι λέγοντες ἀλλʼ εἰς Σολομῶνα, ὅτε εἰσέφερε τὴν σκηνὴν τοῦ μαρτυρίου εἰς τὸν ναὸν ὃν ᾠκοδόμησεν.

English · Claude translation

And I said, “As you wish, Trypho, I will come to these proofs you ask for in the proper place; but now you will allow me first to recall the prophecies I wish, to show that Christ is called by the Holy Spirit both God and Lord of hosts and Jacob in a parable; and that your interpreters, as God cries, are foolish, saying that these were spoken not of Christ but of Solomon, when he brought the tabernacle of witness into the temple he had built.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:162 · 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

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 36.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/36/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 36.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/36/2/).