Dialogue with Trypho 112.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:172–174

Ὁ ὄφις ἄρα νοηθήσεται σεσωκέναι τὸν λαὸν τότε, ὃν, ὡς προεῖπον, κατηράσατο ὁ θεὸς τὴν ἀρχήν, καὶ ἀνελεῖ διὰ τῆς μεγάλης μαχαίρας, ὡς Ἡσαίας βοᾷ; Καὶ οὕτως ἀφρόνως παραδεξόμεθα τὰ τοιαῦτα, ὡς οἱ διδάσκαλοι ὑμῶν φασι, καὶ οὐ σύμβολα; Οὐχὶ δὲ ἀνοίσομεν ἐπὶ τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ σταυρωθέντος Ἰησοῦ τὸ σημεῖον, ἐπεὶ καὶ Μωσῆς διὰ τῆς ἐκτάσεως τῶν χειρῶν σὺν τῷ ἐπικληθέντι Ἰησοῦ ὀνόματι καὶ νικᾶν τὸν λαὸν ὑμῶν εἰργάζοντο;

English · Claude translation

“Shall the serpent, then, be understood to have saved the people at that time, which, as I said before, God cursed in the beginning, and will slay with the great sword, as Isaiah cries? And shall we so foolishly accept such things, as your teachers say, and not as symbols? Shall we not rather refer the sign to the image of the crucified Jesus, since Moses too, by the stretching out of his hands together with the one named Jesus, brought about the victory of your people?

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:172–174 · 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 3:14 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 27:1 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): τότε, ὅν, ὡς προεῖπον → τότε, ὃν, ὡς προεῖπον.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 112.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/112/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 112.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/112/2/).