Dialogue with Trypho 126.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Exod 6:2–4.

Greek text · Archambault 2:246–248

Ἐπεὶ εἰ νενοήκατε τὰ εἰρημένα ὑπὸ τῶν προφητῶν, οὐκ ἂν ἐξηρνεῖσθε αὐτὸν εἶναι θεόν, τοῦ μόνου καὶ ἀγεννήτου καὶ ἀρρήτου θεοῦ υἱόν. Εἴρηται γάρ που καὶ διὰ Μωσέως ἐν τῇ Ἐξόδῳ οὕτως· Ἐλάλησε δὲ κύριος πρὸς Μωσῆν, καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτόν· Ἐγώ εἰμι κύριος, καὶ ὤφθην πρὸς τὸν Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακώβ, θεὸς αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸ ὄνομά μου οὐκ ἐδήλωσα αὐτοῖς, καὶ ἔστησα τὴν διαθήκην μου πρὸς αὐτούς.

English · Claude translation

“For if you had understood what was said by the prophets, you would not deny that he is God, Son of the only, unbegotten, and ineffable God. For it is said somewhere through Moses in Exodus thus: ‘And the Lord spoke to Moses and said to him: I am the Lord, and I appeared to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, being their God, and I did not make known my name to them, and I established my covenant with them.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:246–248 · 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

Exod 6:2 · quotation, high confidence
Exod 6:3 · quotation, high confidence
Exod 6:4 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 126.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/126/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 126.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/126/2/).