Dialogue with Trypho 127.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:252–254

Οὔτε οὖν Ἀβραὰμ οὔτε Ἰσαὰκ οὔτε Ἰακὼβ οὔτε ἄλλος ἀνθρώπων εἶδε τὸν πατέρα καὶ ἄρρητον κύριον τῶν πάντων ἁπλῶς καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖνον τὸν κατὰ βουλὴν τὴν ἐκείνου καὶ θεὸν ὄντα, υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἄγγελον ἐκ τοῦ ὑπηρετεῖν τῇ γνώμῃ αὐτοῦ· ὃν καὶ ἄνθρωπον γεννηθῆναι διὰ τῆς παρθένου βεβούληται, ὃς καὶ πῦρ ποτε γέγονε τῇ πρὸς Μωσέα ὁμιλίᾳ τῇ ἀπὸ τῆς βάτου.

English · Claude translation

“Neither Abraham, then, nor Isaac, nor Jacob, nor any other man saw the Father and ineffable Lord of all without exception, and of Christ himself, but that one who according to his will is both God, his Son, and Angel because he serves his purpose; whom he also willed to be born a man through the Virgin; who also once became fire in the conversation with Moses from the bush.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:252–254 · 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

John 1:18 · echo, high confidence
Exod 3:2 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Trinity, Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): τῶν πάντων ἀπλῶς → τῶν πάντων ἁπλῶς; ὅν καὶ ἄνθρωπον → ὃν καὶ ἄνθρωπον; ὅς καὶ πῦρ → ὃς καὶ πῦρ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 127.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/127/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 127.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/127/4/).