Dialogue with Trypho 126.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The one who appeared to the patriarchs serves the Father's will.

Greek text · Archambault 2:248–250

Καὶ οὕτω περὶ αὐτῶν πάλιν λέγει· Ἐξαναστάντες δὲ ἐκεῖθεν οἱ ἄνδρες κατέβλεψαν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον Σοδόμων. Εἶτα πάλιν πρὸς τὸν Ἀβραὰμ ὃς ἦν καὶ ἔστιν οὕτως λέγει· Οὐ μὴ κρύψω ἀπὸ τοῦ παιδός μου Ἀβραὰμ ἐγὼ ἃ μέλλω ποιεῖν· καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ἀνιστορημένα ἀπὸ τῶν τοῦ Μωσέως καὶ ἐξηγημένα ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ πάλιν ἔλεγον, διʼ ὧν ἀποδέδεικται ὑπὸ τῷ πατρὶ καὶ κυρίῳ τεταγμένος καὶ ὑπηρετῶν τῇ βουλῇ αὐτοῦ οὗτος ὃς ὤφθη τῷ τε Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τῷ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ τῷ Ἰακὼβ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις πατριάρχαις, ἀναγεγραμμένος θεός, ἔλεγον.

English · Claude translation

“And thus he says of them again: ‘And the men rose up from there and looked toward Sodom.’ Then again he who was and is speaks thus to Abraham: ‘I will not hide from my servant Abraham what I am about to do’; and I recounted again what follows, as quoted from the writings of Moses and explained by me, by which it has been proved,” I said, “that this one who appeared to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and the other patriarchs, and is written of as God, is subject to the Father and Lord and serves his will.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:248–250 · 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

Gen 18:16 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 18:17 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology, Trinity

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 126.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/126/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 126.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/126/5/).