Dialogue with Trypho 58.5

Summary: Gen 31:11–13: the angel says, “I am the God who appeared to you.”

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Greek text · Archambault 1:270

Ἐγὼ δὲ εἶπον· Τί ἐστι, κύριε; Καὶ εἶπεν· Ἀνάβλεψον τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς σου καὶ ἴδε τοὺς τράγους καὶ τοὺς κριοὺς ἀναβαίνοντας ἐπὶ τὰ πρόβατα καὶ τὰς αἶγας, διαλεύκους καὶ ποικίλους καὶ σποδοειδεῖς ῥαντούς· ἑώρακα γὰρ ὅσα σοι Λάβαν ποιεῖ. Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ θεὸς ὁ ὀφθείς σοι ἐν τῷ τόπῳ θεοῦ, οὗ ἤλειψάς μοι ἐκεῖ στήλην καὶ ηὔξω ἐκεῖ εὐχήν. Νῦν οὖν ἀνάστηθι καὶ ἔξελθε ἐκ τῆς γῆς ταύτης καὶ ἄπελθε εἰς τὴν γῆν τῆς γενέσεώς σου, καὶ ἔσομαι μετὰ σοῦ.

English · Claude translation

“‘And I said: What is it, Lord? And he said: Lift up your eyes and see the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the goats, white-streaked and speckled and spotted with gray; for I have seen all that Laban does to you. I am the God who appeared to you in the place of God, where you anointed a pillar for me and vowed a vow to me there. Now therefore arise and go out from this land and go to the land of your birth, and I will be with you.’

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Archambault 1:270 · 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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Topics
Scripture and canon, Christology

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  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): τοὐς κριοὺς → τοὺς κριοὺς; οὖ ἤλειψάς → οὗ ἤλειψάς.

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Justin, Dial. 58.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/58/5/).

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Justin, Dial. 58.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/58/5/).

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