Dialogue with Trypho 103.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: After the baptism the devil tempted Christ, who rebuked him.

Greek text · Archambault 2:138–140

Καὶ γὰρ οὗτος ὁ διάβολος ἅμα τῷ ἀναβῆναι αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ ποταμοῦ τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, τῆς φωνῆς αὐτῷ λεχθείσης· Υἱός μου εἶ σύ, ἐγὼ σήμερον γεγέννηκά σε· ἐν τοῖς ἀπομνημονεύμασι τῶν ἀποστόλων γέγραπται προσελθὼν αὐτῷ καὶ πειράζων μέχρι τοῦ εἰπεῖν αὐτῷ· Προσκύνησόν μοι· καὶ ἀποκρίνασθαι αὐτῷ τὸν Χριστόν. Ὕπαγε ὀπίσω μου, σατανᾶ· κύριον τὸν θεόν σου προσκυνήσεις καὶ αὐτῷ μόνῳ λατρεύσεις. Ὡς γὰρ τὸν Ἀδὰμ ἐπλάνησεν, ἔλεγε καὶ τοῦτον δυνηθῆναι ἐργάσασθαί τι.

English · Claude translation

“For this devil, as soon as he came up from the river Jordan, when the voice had said to him, ‘You are my Son; today I have begotten you,’ is written in the memoirs of the apostles to have come to him and tempted him, even to saying to him, ‘Worship me’; and Christ answered him, ‘Get behind me, Satan; you shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’ For as he had deceived Adam, he said he could do something against him too.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:138–140 · 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

Ps 2:7 · quotation, high confidence
Luke 3:22 · quotation, medium confidence
Matt 4:1 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 4:9 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 4:10 · quotation, high confidence
Deut 6:13 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 103.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/103/6/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 103.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/103/6/).