Dialogue with Trypho 113.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The renaming of Hoshea as Joshua (Jesus) was significant.

Greek text · Archambault 2:176–178

Ὃ δὲ λέγω τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν. Ἰησοῦν, ὡς προέφην πολλάκις, Αὐσῆν καλούμενον, ἐκεῖνον τὸν μετὰ τοῦ Χαλὲβ κατάσκοπον εἰς τὴν Χαναὰν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἀποσταλέντα, Ἰησοῦν Μωσῆς ἐκάλεσε. Τοῦτο σὺ οὐ ζητεῖς διʼ ἣν αἰτίαν ἐποίησεν, οὐκ ἀπορεῖς, οὐδὲ φιλοπευστεῖς· τοιγαροῦν λέληθέ σε ὁ Χριστός, καὶ ἀναγινώσκων οὐ συνίης, οὐδὲ νῦν, ἀκούων ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἐστιν ὁ Χριστὸς ἡμῶν, συλλογίζῃ οὐκ ἀργῶς οὐδʼ ὡς ἔτυχεν ἐκείνῳ τεθεῖσθαι τοὔνομα.

English · Claude translation

“What I mean is this. Jesus, as I have often said, who was called Hoshea, the one sent as a spy into the land of Canaan with Caleb, Moses called Jesus. You do not ask why he did this, you are not puzzled, nor are you curious; therefore Christ has escaped you, and reading you do not understand; nor even now, hearing that Jesus is our Christ, do you reckon that the name was not given to him idly or by chance.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:176–178 · 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

Num 13:16 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 113.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/113/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 113.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/113/1/).