Dialogue with Trypho 58.9

Summary: He is called God, is God, and will be.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:272–274

Θεὸς καλεῖται καὶ θεός ἐστι καὶ ἔσται.

He is called God, and he is God, and will be.

Source: Archambault 1:272–274 · 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: Christology

This short sentence seems out of place; some editors think it is a marginal note or that words have been lost around it.

Justin, Dial. 58.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/58/9/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 58.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/58/9/).