Dialogue with Trypho 66.4

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Only Christ was born of a virgin in Abraham's line.

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Greek text · Archambault 1:316–318

Καὶ ἐπέφερον· Ὅτι μὲν οὖν ἐν τῷ γένει τῷ κατὰ σάρκα Ἀβραὰμ οὐδεὶς οὐδέποτε ἀπὸ παρθένου γεγέννηται οὐδὲ λέλεκται γεγεννημένος ἀλλʼ ἢ οὗτος ὁ ἡμέτερος Χριστός, πᾶσι φανερόν ἐστι.

English · Claude translation

And I added: “Now it is plain to all that in the race of Abraham according to the flesh no one has ever been born of a virgin, or said to have been born, except this our Christ.”

About this passage

Source: Archambault 1:316–318 · 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

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Justin, Dial. 66.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/66/4/).

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Justin, Dial. 66.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/66/4/).

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