Dialogue with Trypho 100.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:124

Παρθένος γὰρ οὖσα Εὔα καὶ ἄφθορος, τὸν λόγον τὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄφεως συλλαβοῦσα, παρακοὴν καὶ θάνατον ἔτεκε· πίστιν δὲ καὶ χαρὰν λαβοῦσα Μαρία ἡ παρθένος, εὐαγγελιζομένου αὐτῇ Γαβριὴλ ἀγγέλου ὅτι πνεῦμα κυρίου ἐπʼ αὐτὴν ἐπελεύσεται καὶ δύναμις ὑψίστου ἐπισκιάσει αὐτήν, διὸ καὶ τὸ γεννώμενον ἐξ αὐτῆς ἅγιόν ἐστιν υἱὸς θεοῦ, ἀπεκρίνατο· Γένοιτό μοι κατὰ τὸ ῥῆμά σου.

English · Claude translation

“For Eve, being a virgin and uncorrupted, conceived the word from the serpent and brought forth disobedience and death; but Mary the virgin received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the good news that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow her, and therefore the holy one born of her is the Son of God; and she answered, ‘Let it be to me according to your word.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:124 · 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

Gen 3:4 · allusion, medium confidence
Luke 1:26 · allusion, high confidence
Luke 1:35 · quotation, high confidence
Luke 1:38 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

The earliest surviving Eve–Mary parallel, developed further by Irenaeus.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip (dropped letter)): υἱὸς θεῦ → υἱὸς θεοῦ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 100.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/100/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 100.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/100/5/).