Sophia Scriptura

Dialogue with Trypho 56.4

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

Summary: Justin will prove there is another God and Lord, under the Creator, called Angel because he announces the Father's will.

Greek text · Archambault 1:248

Κἀγὼ πάλιν· Ἃ λέγω πειράσομαι ὑμᾶς πεῖσαι, νοήσαντας τὰς γραφάς, ὅτι ἐστὶ καὶ λέγεται θεὸς καὶ κύριος ἕτερος ὑπὸ τὸν ποιητὴν τῶν ὅλων, ὃς καὶ ἄγγελος καλεῖται, διὰ τὸ ἀγγέλλειν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ὅσαπερ βούλεται αὐτοῖς ἀγγεῖλαι ὁ τῶν ὅλων ποιητής, ὑπὲρ ὃν ἄλλος θεὸς οὐκ ἔστι. Καὶ ἀνιστορῶν πάλιν τὰ προλεχθέντα ἐπυθόμην τοῦ Τρύφωνος· Δοκεῖ σοι ὀφθῆναι ὑπὸ τὴν δρῦν τὴν Μαμβρῆ ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἀβραάμ, ὡς ὁ λόγος λέγει; Κἀκεῖνος· Μάλιστα.

English · Claude translation

And I said again, “I will try to persuade you, when you have understood the Scriptures, of what I say: that there is, and is said to be, another God and Lord under the Maker of all things, who is also called Angel, because he announces to men whatever the Maker of all things, above whom there is no other God, wishes to announce to them.” And recalling again what had been said before, I asked Trypho, “Do you think that God appeared to Abraham under the oak of Mamre, as the word says?” And he said, “Certainly.”

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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)
Topics
Trinity, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Under” (ὑπό) the Maker of all things: Justin's subordinationist language, common before Nicaea.

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Justin, Dial. 56.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/4/).

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Justin, Dial. 56.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/4/).

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