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Dialogue with Trypho 113.2

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Rabbis discuss the letters added to Abraham's and Sarah's names but ignore Joshua's new name.

Greek text · Archambault 2:178–180

Ἀλλὰ διὰ τί μὲν ἓν ἄλφα πρώτῳ προσετέθη τῷ Ἀβραὰμ ὀνόματι, θεολογεῖς, καὶ διὰ τί ἓν ῥῶ τῷ Σάρρας ὀνόματι, ὁμοίως κομπολογεῖς· διὰ τί δὲ τὸ πατρόθεν ὄνομα τῷ Αὐσῇ, τῷ υἱῷ Ναυῆ, ὅλον μετωνόμασται τῷ Ἰησοῦ, οὐ ζητεῖς ὁμοίως.

English · Claude translation

“But you speculate theologically about why one alpha was added to the first name of Abraham, and likewise you talk boastfully about why one rho was added to the name of Sarah; but you do not likewise ask why the name given by his father to Hoshea the son of Nun was wholly changed to Jesus.

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Source
Archambault 2:178–180 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • In Greek Ἀβράμ became Ἀβραάμ, and Σάρα became Σάρρα (Gen 17:5, 15).

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Justin, Dial. 113.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/113/2/).

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Justin, Dial. 113.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/113/2/).

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