Dialogue with Trypho 125.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christ defeated the devil in the temptation.

Greek text · Archambault 2:244

Ὅτε γὰρ ἄνθρωπος γέγονεν, ὡς προεῖπον, προσῆλθεν αὐτῷ ὁ διάβολος, τουτέστιν ἡ δύναμις ἐκείνη ἡ καὶ ὄφις κεκλημένη καὶ σατανᾶς, πειράζων αὐτὸν καὶ ἀγωνιζόμενος καταβαλεῖν διὰ τοῦ ἀξιοῦν προσκυνῆσαι αὐτόν. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸν κατέλυσε καὶ κατέβαλεν, ἐλέγξας ὅτι πονηρός ἐστι, παρὰ τὴν γραφὴν ἀξιῶν προσκυνεῖσθαι ὡς θεός, ἀποστάτης τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ γνώμης γεγενημένος. Ἀποκρίνεται γὰρ αὐτῷ· Γέγραπται· Κύριον τὸν θεόν σου προσκυνήσεις καὶ αὐτῷ μόνῳ λατρεύσεις. Καὶ ἡττημένος καὶ ἐληλεγμένος ἀπένευσε τότε ὁ διάβολος.

English · Claude translation

“For when he became man, as I said before, the devil came to him, that is, that power which is also called serpent and Satan, tempting him and striving to overthrow him by asking him to worship him. But he destroyed and overthrew him, proving that he was wicked, asking contrary to the Scripture to be worshiped as God, having become an apostate from God's will. For he answers him: ‘It is written: You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’ And then the devil, defeated and refuted, went away.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:244 · 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

Matt 4:9 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 4:10 · quotation, high confidence
Deut 6:13 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 4:11 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 125.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/125/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 125.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/125/4/).