Dialogue with Trypho 56.13

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

Summary: One of Trypho's companions suggests the Lord in Sodom was one of the angels.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:254–256

Καὶ ὁ τέταρτος τῶν σὺν Τρύφωνι παραμεινάντων ἔφη· Ὃν οὖν ὁ λόγος διὰ Μωσέως τῶν δύο ἀγγέλων κατελθόντων εἰς Σόδομα καὶ κύριον ἕνα ὠνόμασε, παρὰ τοῦτον καὶ τὸν θεὸν αὐτὸν τὸν ὀφθέντα τῷ Ἀβραὰμ λέγειν ἀνάγκη.

English · Claude translation

And the fourth of those who had stayed with Trypho said, “It is necessary, then, to say that besides the one of the two angels who went down to Sodom whom the word through Moses named Lord, there is also God himself, who appeared to Abraham.”

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Source: Archambault 1:254–256 · 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)

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Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slips against Archambault's printed text (wrong letter; wrong breathing)): Ὅν οὖν ὁ λόγος → Ὃν οὖν ὁ λόγος; καὶ κόριον ἔνα → καὶ κύριον ἕνα.

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Justin, Dial. 56.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/13/).

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Justin, Dial. 56.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/13/).

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