Dialogue with Trypho 126.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:244–246

Τίς δʼ ἐστὶν οὗτος, ὃς καὶ ἄγγελος μεγάλης βουλῆς ποτε, καὶ ἀνὴρ διὰ Ἰεζεκιήλ, καὶ ὡς υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου διὰ Δανιήλ, καὶ παιδίον διὰ Ἡσαίου, καὶ Χριστὸς καὶ θεὸς προσκυνητὸς διὰ Δαυΐδ, καὶ Χριστὸς καὶ λίθος διὰ πολλῶν, καὶ σοφία διὰ Σολομῶνος, καὶ Ἰωσὴφ καὶ Ἰούδα καὶ ἄστρον διὰ Μωσέως, καὶ ἀνατολὴ διὰ Ζαχαρίου, καὶ παθητὸς καὶ Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ πάλιν διὰ Ἡσαίου, καὶ ῥάβδος καὶ ἄνθος καὶ λίθος ἀκρογωνιαῖος κέκληται καὶ υἱὸς θεοῦ, εἰ ἐγνώκειτε, ὦ Τρύφων, ἔφην, οὐκ ἂν ἐβλασφημεῖτε εἰς αὐτὸν ἤδη καὶ παραγενόμενον καὶ γεννηθέντα καὶ παθόντα καὶ ἀναβάντα εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν· ὃς καὶ πάλιν παρέσται, καὶ τότε κόψονται ὑμῶν αἱ δώδεκα φυλαί.

English · Claude translation

“But who this is, who is called now the Angel of great counsel, and a Man by Ezekiel, and like a Son of Man by Daniel, and a Child by Isaiah, and Christ and God to be worshiped by David, and Christ and a Stone by many, and Wisdom by Solomon, and Joseph and Judah and a Star by Moses, and the East by Zechariah, and the Sufferer and Jacob and Israel again by Isaiah, and a Rod and Flower and Cornerstone and Son of God, if you had known, Trypho,” I said, “you would not blaspheme him who has now come and been born and suffered and gone up into heaven; who will also come again, and then your twelve tribes will mourn.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:244–246 · 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

Isa 9:6 (9:5 LXX) · allusion, high confidence
Dan 7:13 · allusion, high confidence
Zech 6:12 · allusion, high confidence
Num 24:17 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 11:1 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 28:16 · allusion, high confidence
Zech 12:12 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): οὗτος, ὅς καὶ ἄγγελος → οὗτος, ὃς καὶ ἄγγελος.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 126.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/126/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 126.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/126/1/).