Dialogue with Trypho 129.2

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Gen 3:22 indicates plurality.

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Greek text · Archambault 2:260

Καὶ πάλιν ὅταν λέγῃ ὁ λόγος εἰρηκέναι τὸν θεὸν ἐν ἀρχῇ· Ἰδοὺ Ἀδὰμ γέγονεν ὡς εἷς ἐξ ἡμῶν, τόδε, Ὡς εἷς ἐξ ἡμῶν, καὶ αὐτὸ ἀριθμοῦ δηλωτικόν ἐστιν, ἀλλʼ οὐ τροπολογίαν χωροῦσιν οἱ λόγοι, ὡς ἐξηγεῖσθαι ἐπιχειροῦσιν οἱ σοφισταὶ καὶ μηδὲ λέγειν τὴν ἀλήθειαν μηδὲ νοεῖν δυνάμενοι.

English · Claude translation

“And again, when the word says that God said in the beginning, ‘Behold, Adam has become as one of us,’ this ‘as one of us’ is also indicative of number, and the words do not admit a figurative meaning, as the sophists try to explain, who can neither speak the truth nor understand it.

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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 3:22 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Trinity

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Justin, Dial. 129.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/129/2/).

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Justin, Dial. 129.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/129/2/).

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