Dialogue with Trypho 129.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:260

Καὶ νῦν δὲ ἔτι καὶ οὓς εἶπον λόγους εἰς ἀπόδειξιν τούτου ἐρῶ. Ὅταν λέγῃ· Ἔβρεξε κύριος πῦρ παρὰ κυρίου ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, δύο ὄντας ἀριθμῷ μηνύει ὁ λόγος ὁ προφητικός, τὸν μὲν ἐπὶ γῆς ὄντα, ὅς φησι καταβεβηκέναι ἰδεῖν τὴν κραυγὴν Σοδόμων, τὸν δὲ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς ὑπάρχοντα, ὃς καὶ τοῦ ἐπὶ γῆς κυρίου κύριός ἐστιν, ὡς πατὴρ καὶ θεός, αἴτιός τε αὐτῷ τοῦ εἶναι καὶ δυνατῷ καὶ κυρίῳ καὶ θεῷ.

English · Claude translation

“And now I will also cite the words I mentioned to prove this. When it says, ‘The Lord rained fire from the Lord out of heaven,’ the prophetic word indicates two in number, one on earth, who, it says, came down to see the cry of Sodom, and the other in the heavens, who is also Lord of the Lord on earth, as Father and God, and the cause of his existence and of his being mighty and Lord and God.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:260 · 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 19:24 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 18:21 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Trinity

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): καὶ οὕς εἶπον λόγους → καὶ οὓς εἶπον λόγους; ὅς καὶ τοῦ ἐπὶ γῆς → ὃς καὶ τοῦ ἐπὶ γῆς.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 129.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/129/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 129.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/129/1/).