Dialogue with Trypho 59.1

Summary: Justin turns to the burning bush.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:276

Καὶ ταῦτα εἰπών· Ἀνάσχεσθέ μου, ἔλεγον, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς βίβλου τῆς Ἐξόδου ἀποδεικνύοντος ὑμῖν, πῶς ὁ αὐτὸς οὗτος καὶ ἄγγελος καὶ θεὸς καὶ κύριος καὶ ἀνὴρ καὶ ἄνθρωπος, Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰακὼβ φανείς, ἐν πυρὶ φλογὸς ἐκ βάτου πέφανται καὶ ὡμίλησε τῷ Μωσεῖ. Κἀκείνων ἡδέως καὶ ἀκαμάτως καὶ προθύμως ἀκούειν λεγόντων, ἐπέφερον·

English · Claude translation

And having said this, I went on: “Bear with me while I also prove to you from the book of Exodus how this same one, who is Angel and God and Lord and Man and a human being, and who appeared to Abraham and Jacob, appeared in a flame of fire from the bush and spoke with Moses.” And when they said they would listen gladly and untiringly and eagerly, I added:

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Archambault 1:276 · 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
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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.
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Christology

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  • Digital text corrected (stray punctuation in the digital text): καὶ·ὡμίλησε → καὶ ὡμίλησε.

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Justin, Dial. 59.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/59/1/).

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Justin, Dial. 59.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/59/1/).

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