Dialogue with Trypho 56.12 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:254

Καὶ ὁ Τρύφων· Ὅτι οὖν καὶ ἔστιν ἀπόδειξον ἤδη, ἵνα καὶ τούτῳ συνθώμεθα· οὐ γὰρ παρὰ γνώμην τοῦ ποιητοῦ τῶν ὅλων φάσκειν τι ἢ πεποιηκέναι αὐτὸν ἢ λελαληκέναι λέγειν σε ὑπολαμβάνομεν. Κἀγὼ εἶπον· Ἡ γραφὴ οὖν ἡ προλελεγμένη παρʼ ἐμοῦ τοῦτο φανερὸν ὑμῖν ποιήσει. Ἔστι δὲ ταῦτα· Ὁ ἥλιος ἐξῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ Λὼτ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς Σηγώρ. Καὶ ὁ κύριος ἔβρεξεν ἐπὶ Σόδομα θεῖον καὶ πῦρ παρὰ κυρίου ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ κατέστρεψε τὰς πόλεις ταύτας καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν περίοικον.

English · Claude translation

And Trypho said, “Prove now that he exists, so that we may agree to this too; for we do not suppose that you say he said or did anything contrary to the will of the Maker of all.” And I said, “The Scripture already quoted by me will make this plain to you. It is this: ‘The sun rose over the earth, and Lot entered Zoar. And the Lord rained on Sodom brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven, and overthrew these cities and all the region around.’”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:254 · 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

Gen 19:23 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 19:24 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 19:25 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Trinity

Notes

Translation notes

“The Lord rained … from the Lord” became a standard early Christian proof of two divine persons.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing breathing)): Ο ἥλιος ἐξῆλθεν → Ὁ ἥλιος ἐξῆλθεν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 56.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/12/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 56.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/12/).