Dialogue with Trypho 128.1

Summary: Christ appeared as man, angel, and fire before his incarnation.

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Greek text · Archambault 2:254–256

Καὶ ὅτι κύριος ὢν ὁ Χριστός, καὶ θεὸς θεοῦ υἱὸς ὑπάρχων, καὶ δυνάμει φαινόμενος πρότερον ὡς ἀνὴρ καὶ ἄγγελος, καὶ ἐν πυρὸς δόξῃ, ὡς ἐν τῇ βάτῳ, πέφανται καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς κρίσεως τῆς γεγενημένης ἐπὶ Σόδομα, ἀποδέδεικται ἐν πολλοῖς τοῖς εἰρημένοις. Ἀνιστόρουν δὲ πάλιν ἃ καὶ προέγραψα ἀπὸ τῆς Ἐξόδου πάντα, περί τε τῆς ὀπτασίας τῆς ἐπὶ τῆς βάτου καὶ τῆς ἐπικλήσεως τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ὀνόματος, καὶ ἐπέλεγον·

English · Claude translation

“And that Christ, being Lord and God, the Son of God, and appearing formerly by his power as a man and an angel, and in the glory of fire, as in the bush, appeared also at the judgment on Sodom, has been proved by much that has been said.” And I recounted again all that I have written above from Exodus, about the vision at the bush and the naming with the name of Jesus, and added:

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Source
Archambault 2:254–256 · 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)
Topics
Christology

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Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): πάλιν ἅ καὶ προέγραψα → πάλιν ἃ καὶ προέγραψα.

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Justin, Dial. 128.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/128/1/).

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Justin, Dial. 128.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/128/1/).

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