Dialogue with Trypho 56.3

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

Summary: They see no proof of another God in the passage.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:248

Οἱ δὲ ἔφασαν νενοηκέναι μέν, μηδὲν δὲ ἔχειν εἰς ἀπόδειξιν τοὺς λελεγμένους λόγους ὅτι θεὸς ἢ κύριος ἄλλος τίς ἐστιν ἢ λέλεκται ὑπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος παρὰ τὸν ποιητὴν τῶν ὅλων.

English · Claude translation

And they said they had understood, but that the words quoted had nothing to prove that there is, or is said by the Holy Spirit to be, another God or Lord besides the Maker of all things.

About this passage

Source: Archambault 1:248 · 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)

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Justin, Dial. 56.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 56.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/3/).

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