Dialogue with Trypho 100.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:122–124

Καὶ γὰρ υἱὸν θεοῦ, Χριστόν, κατὰ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ἀποκάλυψιν ἐπιγνόντα αὐτὸν ἕνα τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ, Σίμωνα πρότερον καλούμενον, ἐπωνόμασε Πέτρον. Καὶ υἱὸν θεοῦ γεγραμμένον αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς ἀπομνημονεύμασι τῶν ἀποστόλων αὐτοῦ ἔχοντες καὶ υἱὸν αὐτὸν λέγοντες νενοήκαμεν ὄντα καὶ πρὸ πάντων ποιημάτων ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς δυνάμει αὐτοῦ καὶ βουλῇ προελθόντα, ὃς καὶ σοφία καὶ ἡμέρα καὶ ἀνατολὴ καὶ μάχαιρα καὶ λίθος καὶ ῥάβδος καὶ Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ κατʼ ἄλλον καὶ ἄλλον τρόπον ἐν τοῖς τῶν προφητῶν λόγοις προσηγόρευται, καὶ διὰ τῆς παρθένου ἄνθρωπον γεγονέναι, ἵνα καὶ διʼ ἧς ὁδοῦ ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄφεως παρακοὴ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἔλαβε, διὰ ταύτης τῆς ὁδοῦ καὶ κατάλυσιν λάβῃ.

English · Claude translation

“For when one of his disciples, formerly called Simon, recognized him as the Son of God, Christ, by the revelation of his Father, he named him Peter. And since we find him written as Son of God in the memoirs of his apostles, and call him Son, we have understood that he is, and that he came forth from the Father before all things made, by his power and will; who is also called in the words of the prophets, in one way and another, Wisdom and Day and East and Sword and Stone and Rod and Jacob and Israel; and that he became man through the Virgin, so that the disobedience that began from the serpent might also be destroyed by the same way by which it began.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:122–124 · 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)

Scripture

Matt 16:16 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 16:17 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 16:18 · allusion, high confidence
Zech 6:12 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Christology, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

“The memoirs of his apostles” (ἀπομνημονεύματα): Justin's usual name for the Gospels, frequent from here to ch. 107.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): αὐτὸν ἔνα τῶν μαθητῶν → αὐτὸν ἕνα τῶν μαθητῶν; διʼ ἦς ὁδοῦ → διʼ ἧς ὁδοῦ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 100.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/100/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 100.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/100/4/).