Dialogue with Trypho 105.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:148

Καὶ ὅτι μένουσιν αἱ ψυχαὶ ἀπέδειξα ὑμῖν ἐκ τοῦ καὶ τὴν Σαμουὴλ ψυχὴν κληθῆναι ὑπὸ τῆς ἐγγαστριμύθου, ὡς ἠξίωσεν ὁ Σαούλ. Φαίνεται δὲ καὶ ὅτι πᾶσαι αἱ ψυχαὶ τῶν οὕτως δικαίων καὶ προφητῶν ὑπὸ ἐξουσίαν ἔπιπτον τῶν τοιούτων δυνάμεων, ὁποία δὴ καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐγγαστριμύθῳ ἐκείνῃ ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν πραγμάτων ὁμολογεῖται.

English · Claude translation

“And that souls survive I have shown you from the fact that the soul of Samuel was called up by the medium, as Saul asked. And it appears too that all the souls of such righteous men and prophets fell under the power of such powers, as is admitted from the facts themselves in the case of that medium.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:148 · 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

1 Sam 28:11 · allusion, high confidence
1 Sam 28:14 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

The medium of Endor (1 Sam 28): Justin takes Samuel's appearance as real, and as showing that before Christ even the souls of the righteous were subject to such powers.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 105.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/105/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 105.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/105/4/).