Dialogue with Trypho 49.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Both Christ's and the Spirit's first comings were without glory.

Greek text · Archambault 1:222

Κἀκεῖνος· Μάλιστα. Ὡς οὖν, φημί, ἔτι ὄντος τότε ἐν ἀνθρώποις τοῦ Μωσέως, μετέθηκεν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰησοῦν ὁ θεὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐν Μωσεῖ πνεύματος, οὕτως καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἡλίου ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰωάννην ἐλθεῖν ὁ θεὸς δυνατὸς ἦν ποιῆσαι, ἵνα, ὥσπερ ὁ Χριστὸς τῇ πρώτῃ παρουσίᾳ ἄδοξος ἐφάνη, οὕτως καὶ τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ ἐν Ἡλίᾳ πάντοτε καθαρεύοντος, ὡς τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἄδοξος ἡ πρώτη παρουσία νοηθῇ.

English · Claude translation

And he said, “Certainly.” “As, then,” I said, “while Moses was still among men, God transferred to Joshua some of the spirit that was in Moses, so God could also cause it to come from Elijah upon John; so that, as Christ appeared without glory at his first coming, so the first coming of the Spirit that was in Elijah, which remains always pure, like Christ's, might be understood as without glory.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:222 · 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. 49.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/49/7/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 49.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/49/7/).