Dialogue with Trypho 69.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:332–334

Ὅταν γὰρ Διόνυσον μὲν υἱὸν τοῦ Διὸς ἐκ μίξεως, ἣν μεμῖχθαι αὐτὸν τῇ Σεμέλῃ, γεγενῆσθαι λέγωσι, καὶ τοῦτον εὑρετὴν ἀμπέλου γενόμενον, καὶ διασπαραχθέντα καὶ ἀποθανόντα ἀναστῆναι, εἰς οὐρανόν τε ἀνεληλυθέναι ἱστορῶσι, καὶ ὄνον ἐν τοῖς μυστηρίοις αὐτοῦ παραφέρωσιν, οὐχὶ τὴν προλελεγμένην ὑπὸ Μωσέως ἀναγραφεῖσαν Ἰακὼβ τοῦ πατριάρχου προφητείαν μεμιμῆσθαι αὐτὸν νοῶ;

English · Claude translation

“For when they say that Dionysus was born the son of Zeus by his union with Semele, and relate that he was the discoverer of the vine, and that he was torn in pieces and died and rose again and went up into heaven, and bring an ass into his mysteries, do I not understand that he imitated the prophecy of the patriarch Jacob recorded by Moses, which was quoted before?

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:332–334 · 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 49:11 · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Compare 1 Apol. 54.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): εὑρετήν ἀμπέλου → εὑρετὴν ἀμπέλου; Ἰακώβ τοῦ πατριάρχου → Ἰακὼβ τοῦ πατριάρχου.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 69.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/69/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 69.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/69/2/).