Dialogue with Trypho 60.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:280

Καὶ ὁ Τρύφων· Ἐπειδὴ ἤδη προαποδέδεικται ὅτι ὁ ὀφθεὶς τῷ Ἀβραὰμ θεὸς καὶ κύριος ὠνομασμένος ὑπὸ κυρίου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς λαβὼν τὰ ἐπαχθέντα τῇ Σοδόμων γῇ ἐπήγαγε, καὶ νῦν, κἂν ἄγγελος ἦν σὺν τῷ φανέντι τῷ Μωσεῖ θεῷ γεγενημένος, θεόν, τὸν ἀπὸ τῆς βάτου ὁμιλήσαντα τῷ Μωσεῖ, οὐ τὸν ποιητὴν τῶν ὅλων θεὸν νοήσομεν γεγονέναι, ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖνον τὸν καὶ τῷ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τῷ Ἰακὼβ ἀποδειχθέντα πεφανερῶσθαι, ὃς καὶ ἄγγελος τοῦ τῶν ὅλων ποιητοῦ θεοῦ καλεῖται καὶ νοεῖται εἶναι ἐκ τοῦ διαγγέλλειν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὰ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ ποιητοῦ τῶν ἁπάντων.

English · Claude translation

And Trypho said, “Since it has already been proved that the one who appeared to Abraham and is named God and Lord received from the Lord in heaven what was brought on the land of Sodom and brought it, now too, even if an angel was with the God who appeared to Moses, we shall understand that the God who spoke with Moses from the bush was not God the Maker of all, but the one who was shown to have appeared to Abraham and to Jacob, who is also called and understood to be the Angel of God the Maker of all, because he announces to men the things from the Father and Maker of all.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:280 · 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

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): τῷ Μωσεὶ θεῷ → τῷ Μωσεῖ θεῷ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 60.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/60/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 60.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/60/3/).