Dialogue with Trypho 60.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:282

Ὃν οὖν τρόπον τὸν τῷ Ἰακὼβ ὀφθέντα κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους ἄγγελον ὁ λόγος λέγει, εἶτα αὐτὸν τὸν ὀφθέντα κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους ἄγγελον εἰρηκέναι αὐτῷ, ὅτι Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ θεὸς ὁ ὀφθείς σοι ὅτε ἀπεδίδρασκες ἀπὸ προσώπου Ἠσαῦ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου, καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ ἐν τῇ κρίσει τῶν Σοδόμων κύριον παρὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς τὴν κρίσιν ἐπενηνοχέναι ἔφη, οὕτως καὶ ἐνταῦθα ὁ λόγος, λέγων ἄγγελον κυρίου ὦφθαι τῷ Μωσεῖ καὶ μετέπειτα κύριον αὐτὸν ὄντα καὶ θεὸν σημαίνων, τὸν αὐτὸν λέγει ὃν καὶ διὰ πολλῶν τῶν λελεγμένων ὑπηρετοῦντα τῷ ὑπὲρ κόσμον θεῷ, ὑπὲρ ὃν ἄλλος οὐκ ἔστι, σημαίνει.

English · Claude translation

“As, then, the word calls the one who appeared to Jacob in his sleep an angel, and then says that the same angel who appeared in his sleep said to him, ‘I am the God who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother’; and in the case of Abraham, in the judgment of Sodom, it said that the Lord brought the judgment from the Lord who is in the heavens; so here too the word, saying that the angel of the Lord appeared to Moses, and afterward indicating that he is Lord and God, speaks of the same one whom it indicates through many of the passages quoted as serving the God above the world, above whom there is no other.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:282 · 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 35:7 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 19:24 · allusion, high confidence
Exod 3:2 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Trinity, Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (a phrase is repeated in the digital text (dittography); the repeat is removed): τῶν λελεγμένων, τὸν αὐτὸν λέγει ὃν καὶ διὰ πολλῶν τῶν λελεγμένων ὑπηρετοῦντα → τῶν λελεγμένων ὑπηρετοῦντα.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 60.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/60/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 60.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/60/5/).