Dialogue with Trypho 58.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:272

Καὶ πάλιν ἐν ἑτέροις περὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἰακὼβ ἐξαγγέλλων ταῦτά φησιν· Ἦλθε δὲ Ἰακὼβ εἰς Λουζᾶ, ἥ ἐστιν ἐν γῇ Χαναάν, ἥ ἐστι Βαιθήλ, αὐτὸς καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαός, ὃς ἦν μετʼ αὐτοῦ. Καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐκεῖ θυσιαστήριον, καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου Βαιθήλ· ἐκεῖ γὰρ ἐφάνη αὐτῷ ὁ θεὸς ἐν τῷ ἀποδιδράσκειν ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἠσαῦ. Ἀπέθανε δὲ Δεβόρρα, ἡ τροφὸς Ῥεβέκκας, καὶ ἐτάφη κατωτέρω Βαιθὴλ ὑπὸ τὴν βάλανον, καὶ ἐκάλεσεν Ἰακὼβ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῆς Βάλανον πένθους. Ὤφθη δὲ ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἰακὼβ ἔτι ἐν Λουζᾶ, ὅτε παρεγένετο ἐκ Μεσοποταμίας τῆς Συρίας, καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτόν. Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ θεός· Τὸ ὄνομά σου Ἰακὼβ οὐ κληθήσεται ἔτι, ἀλλὰ Ἰσραὴλ ἔσται τὸ ὄνομά σου.

English · Claude translation

“And again in other passages, relating things about the same Jacob, it says this: ‘And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, which is Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. And he built an altar there, and called the name of that place Bethel; for there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother Esau. And Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died, and was buried below Bethel under the oak; and Jacob called its name Oak of Mourning. And God appeared to Jacob again in Luz, when he came from Mesopotamia of Syria, and blessed him. And God said to him: Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:272 · 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 35:6 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 35:7 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 35:8 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 35:9 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 35:10 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong letter)): ὅς ἦν μετʼ αὐτοῦ → ὃς ἦν μετʼ αὐτοῦ; ὲν τῷ ἀποδιδράσκειν → ἐν τῷ ἀποδιδράσκειν; Ἰκκὼβ → Ἰακὼβ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 58.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/58/8/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 58.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/58/8/).