Dialogue with Trypho 56.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:246–248

Οὕτω γάρ φησιν· Ὤφθη δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ θεὸς πρὸς τῇ δρυῒ τῇ Μαμβρῆ, καθημένου αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῇ θύρᾳ τῆς σκηνῆς μεσημβρίας. Ἀναβλέψας δὲ τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς εἶδε, καὶ ἰδοὺ τρεῖς ἄνδρες εἱστήκεισαν ἐπάνω αὐτοῦ. Καὶ ἰδὼν συνέδραμεν εἰς συνάντησιν αὐτοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς θύρας τῆς σκηνῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ προσεκύνησεν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ εἶπε· καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ μέχρι τοῦ· Ὤρθρισε δὲ Ἀβραὰμ τὸ πρωῒ εἰς τὸν τόπον οὗ εἱστήκει ἔναντι κυρίου, καὶ ἐπέβλεψεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον Σοδόμων καὶ Γομόρρας καὶ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς τῆς περιχώρου, καὶ εἶδε, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνέβαινε φλὸξ ἐκ τῆς γῆς ὡσεὶ ἀτμὶς καμίνου. Καὶ παυσάμενος λοιπὸν τοῦ λέγειν, ἐπυθόμην αὐτῶν εἰ ἐνενοήκεισαν τὰ εἰρημένα.

English · Claude translation

“For he says thus: ‘And God appeared to him at the oak of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent at noon. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men stood over against him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and bowed down to the ground, and said’; and the rest, until: ‘And Abraham rose early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord, and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward the land of the region, and saw, and behold, a flame went up from the earth like the smoke of a furnace.’” And when I had stopped speaking, I asked them whether they had understood what was said.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:246–248 · 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 18:1 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 18:2 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 19:27 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 19:28 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (damaged spot in the digital text; restored from Gen 18:2; digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slips against Archambault's printed text (accents and breathings)): ε(??)τήκεισαν → εἱστήκεισαν; εἰς τόν τόπον οὖ εἰστήκει → εἰς τὸν τόπον οὗ εἱστήκει; λοιπὸν τοὺ λέγειν → λοιπὸν τοῦ λέγειν.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 56.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 56.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/2/).