Dialogue with Trypho 113.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Joshua gave a temporary inheritance; Jesus, who appeared to the patriarchs, gives an eternal one.

Greek text · Archambault 2:180

Ὁ μὲν γὰρ πρόσκαιρον ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς τὴν κληρονομίαν, ἅτε οὐ Χριστὸς ὁ θεὸς ὢν οὐδὲ υἱὸς θεοῦ, ὁ δὲ μετὰ τὴν ἁγίαν ἀνάστασιν αἰώνιον ἡμῖν τὴν κατάσχεσιν δώσει. Τὸν ἥλιον ἔστησεν ἐκεῖνος, μετονομασθεὶς πρότερον τῷ Ἰησοῦ ὀνόματι καὶ λαβὼν ἀπὸ τοῦ πνεύματος αὐτοῦ ἰσχύν. Ὅτι γὰρ Ἰησοῦς ἦν ὁ Μωσεῖ καὶ τῷ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἁπλῶς πατριάρχαις φανεὶς καὶ ὁμιλήσας, τῷ τοῦ πατρὸς θελήματι ὑπηρετῶν, ἀπέδειξα· ὃς καὶ ἄνθρωπος γεννηθῆναι διὰ τῆς παρθένου Μαρίας ἦλθε, καὶ ἔστιν ἀεί.

English · Claude translation

“For the one gave them a temporary inheritance, since he was not Christ who is God, nor the Son of God; but the other will give us the eternal possession after the holy resurrection. That one, having first been renamed with the name of Jesus and having received strength from his Spirit, made the sun stand still. For I have proved that it was Jesus who appeared and spoke to Moses and Abraham and in a word the other patriarchs, serving the Father's will; who also came to be born a man through the Virgin Mary, and exists forever.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:180 · 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)

Scripture

Josh 10:12 · allusion, high confidence
Josh 10:13 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology, Eschatology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 113.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/113/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 113.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/113/4/).