Dialogue with Trypho 127.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:250–252

Καὶ τὰ ἄλλα δὲ τοιαῦτά ἐστιν εἰρημένα τῷ νομοθέτῃ καὶ τοῖς προφήταις. Καὶ ἱκανῶς εἰρῆσθαί μοι ὑπολαμβάνω ὅτι, ὅταν μου ὁ θεὸς λέγῃ· Ἀνέβη ὁ θεὸς ἀπὸ Ἀβραάμ, ἢ Ἐλάλησε κύριος πρὸς Μωσῆν, καὶ Κατέβη κύριος τὸν πύργον ἰδεῖν ὃν ᾠκοδόμησαν οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἢ ὅτε Ἔκλεισεν ὁ θεὸς τὴν κιβωτὸν Νῶε ἔξωθεν, μὴ ἡγεῖσθε αὐτὸν τὸν ἀγέννητον θεὸν καταβεβηκέναι ἢ ἀναβεβηκέναι ποθέν.

English · Claude translation

“And other such things have been said by the lawgiver and the prophets. And I think I have said enough to show that when my God says, ‘God went up from Abraham,’ or, ‘The Lord spoke to Moses,’ and, ‘The Lord came down to see the tower which the sons of men had built,’ or when ‘God shut Noah's ark from outside,’ you should not think that the unbegotten God himself came down or went up from anywhere.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:250–252 · 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 17:22 · quotation, high confidence
Exod 6:29 · quotation, medium confidence
Gen 11:5 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 7:16 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Trinity

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): τὸν πύργον ἰδεῖν ὅν ᾠκοδόμησαν → τὸν πύργον ἰδεῖν ὃν ᾠκοδόμησαν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 127.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/127/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 127.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/127/1/).