Dialogue with Trypho 56.10 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:252

Καὶ πάλιν ἐγώ· Εἰ οὖν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν γραφῶν μὴ εἶχον ἀποδεῖξαι ὑμῖν ὅτι εἷς τῶν τριῶν ἐκείνων καὶ ὁ θεός ἐστι καὶ ἄγγελος καλεῖται, ἐκ τοῦ ἀγγέλλειν, ὡς προέφην, οἷσπερ βούλεται τὰ παρʼ αὐτοῦ ὁ τῶν ὅλων ποιητὴς θεός, τὸν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἐν ἰδέᾳ ἀνδρὸς ὁμοίως τοῖς σὺν αὐτῷ παραγενομένοις δυσὶν ἀγγέλοις φαινόμενον τῷ Ἀβραάμ, τοῦτον τὸν καὶ πρὸ ποιήσεως κόσμου ὄντα θεόν, τοῦτον νοεῖν ὑμᾶς εὔλογον ἦν, ὅπερ τὸ πᾶν ἔθνος ὑμῶν νοεῖ. Καὶ πάνυ, ἔφη· οὕτως γὰρ καὶ μέχρι τοῦ δεῦρο εἴχομεν.

English · Claude translation

And I again said, “If, then, I could not prove to you from the Scriptures that one of those three is both God and is called Angel, because, as I said before, he announces the things from God, the Maker of all, to whomever God wishes, it would be reasonable for you to understand that the one who appeared on earth in the form of a man to Abraham, together with the two angels who came with him, is the one who was God even before the making of the world, as your whole nation understands.” “Certainly,” he said; “for so we have held until now.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:252 · 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.

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing); stray full stop and a digitization slip (wrong letter) in the digital text): ὅτι εἶς τῶν τριῶν → ὅτι εἷς τῶν τριῶν; τῷ Ἀβραάμ., τοῦτου τὸν → τῷ Ἀβραάμ, τοῦτον τὸν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 56.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/10/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 56.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/10/).