Dialogue with Trypho 62.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:294–296

Ἔστι δὲ ταῦτα· Καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἦν Ἰησοῦς ἐν Ἱεριχώ, ἀναβλέψας τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ὁρᾷ ἄνθρωπον ἑστηκότα κατέναντι αὐτοῦ. Καὶ προσελθὼν ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτῷ· Ἡμέτερος εἶ ἢ τῶν ὑπεναντίων; Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· Ἐγὼ ἀρχιστράτηγος δυνάμεως κυρίου, νῦν παραγέγονα. Καὶ Ἰησοῦς ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· Δέσποτα, τί προστάσσεις τῷ σῷ οἰκέτῃ; Καὶ λέγει ὁ ἀρχιστράτηγος κυρίου πρὸς Ἰησοῦν· Λῦσαι τὰ ὑποδήματα τῶν ποδῶν σου· ὁ γὰρ τόπος, ἐφʼ οὗ ἕστηκας, γῆ ἁγία ἐστί. Καὶ ἡ Ἱεριχὼ συγκεκλεισμένη ἦν καὶ ὠχυρωμένη, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐξ αὐτῆς ἐξεπορεύετο. Καὶ εἶπε κύριος πρὸς Ἰησοῦν· Ἰδοὺ παραδίδωμί σοι τὴν Ἱεριχὼ ὑποχείριον καὶ τὸν βασιλέα αὐτῆς τὸν ἐν αὐτῇ, δυνατοὺς ὄντας ἰσχύϊ.

English · Claude translation

“They are these: ‘And it came to pass, when Joshua was at Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and saw a man standing before him. And Joshua went to him and said: Are you ours or of our adversaries? And he said to him: I am the captain of the host of the Lord; I have now come. And Joshua fell on his face on the ground and said to him: Master, what do you command your servant? And the captain of the Lord says to Joshua: Loose the sandals from your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy ground. And Jericho was shut up and fortified, and no one went out of it. And the Lord said to Joshua: Behold, I give into your hand Jericho and its king who is in it, mighty men of valor.’”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:294–296 · 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

Josh 5:13 · quotation, high confidence
Josh 5:14 · quotation, high confidence
Josh 5:15 · quotation, high confidence
Josh 6:1 · quotation, high confidence
Josh 6:2 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology, Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong ending)): ἐπὶ τῆς γῆν → ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 62.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/62/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 62.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/62/5/).