Sophia Scriptura

Dialogue with Trypho 100.3

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Christ called himself Son of Man because of his birth from Mary, of Abraham's and Adam's race.

Greek text · Archambault 2:120–122

Ὅθεν καὶ ἐν τοῖς λόγοις αὐτοῦ ἔφη, ὅτε περὶ τοῦ πάσχειν αὐτὸν μέλλειν διελέγετο, ὅτι Δεῖ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου πολλὰ παθεῖν καὶ ἀποδοκιμασθῆναι ὑπὸ τῶν Φαρισαίων καὶ γραμματέων, καὶ σταυρωθῆναι καὶ τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἀναστῆναι. Υἱὸν οὖν ἀνθρώπου ἑαυτὸν ἔλεγεν, ἤτοι ἀπὸ τῆς γεννήσεως τῆς διὰ παρθένου, ἥτις ἦν, ὡς ἔφην, ἀπὸ τοῦ Δαυῒδ καὶ Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἀβραὰμ γένους, ἢ διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν τὸν Ἀδὰμ πατέρα καὶ τούτων τῶν καθηριθμημένων, ἐξ ὧν κατάγει ἡ Μαρία τὸ γένος· καὶ γὰρ πατέρας τῶν γεννωμένων ταῖς θυγατράσιν αὐτῶν τέκνων τοὺς τῶν θηλειῶν γεννήτορας ἐπιστάμεθα.

English · Claude translation

“Hence also in his own words, when he was speaking about his coming suffering, he said: ‘The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the Pharisees and scribes, and be crucified, and rise on the third day.’ He called himself Son of Man, then, either from his birth through the Virgin, who was, as I said, of the race of David and Jacob and Isaac and Abraham, or because Adam was father both of himself and of those listed before, from whom Mary traces her descent; for we know that the fathers of women are the fathers of the children born to their daughters.

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Source
Archambault 2:120–122 · 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
Text
As printed in Archambault. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
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.
Compare
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
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Topics
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Justin traces Jesus' descent through Mary, not Joseph.

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Justin, Dial. 100.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/100/3/).

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Justin, Dial. 100.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/100/3/).

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