Dialogue with Trypho 105.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: “My only one” in Ps 22:20 points to Christ as the Only-begotten.

Greek text · Archambault 2:144–146

Τὰ δὲ ἀκόλουθα τοῦ ψαλμοῦ· Σὺ δέ, κύριε, μὴ μακρύνῃς τὴν βοήθειάν σου ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ· εἰς τὴν ἀντίληψίν μου πρόσχες· ῥῦσαι ἀπὸ ῥομφαίας τὴν ψυχήν μου καὶ ἐκ χειρὸς κυνὸς τὴν μονογενῆ μου· σῶσόν με ἐκ στόματος λέοντος καὶ ἀπὸ κεράτων μονοκερώτων τὴν ταπείνωσίν μου· ὁμοίως πάλιν διδασκαλία καὶ προαγγελία τῶν ὄντων αὐτῷ καὶ συμβαίνειν μελλόντων. Μονογενὴς γὰρ ὅτι ἦν τῷ πατρὶ τῶν ὅλων οὗτος, ἰδίως ἐξ αὐτοῦ λόγος καὶ δύναμις γεγεννημένος, καὶ ὕστερον ἄνθρωπος διὰ τῆς παρθένου γενόμενος, ὡς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀπομνημονευμάτων ἐμάθομεν, προεδήλωσα.

English · Claude translation

“And what follows in the psalm, ‘But you, Lord, do not keep your help far from me; attend to my support; deliver my soul from the sword, and my only one from the hand of the dog; save me from the lion's mouth, and my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns,’ is likewise again a teaching and foretelling of the things that were his and were to happen to him. For I have shown before that he was the Only-begotten of the Father of all, begotten from him in a unique way as Word and Power, and later became man through the Virgin, as we have learned from the memoirs.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:144–146 · 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 22:19 (21:20 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 22:20 (21:21 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 22:21 (21:22 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
John 1:14 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 105.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/105/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 105.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/105/1/).