Dialogue with Trypho 69.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Heracles and Asclepius imitate prophecies of Christ.

Greek text · Archambault 1:334

Ἐπὰν δὲ τὸν Ἡρακλέα ἰσχυρὸν καὶ περινοστήσαντα πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν, καὶ αὐτὸν τῷ Διῒ ἐξ Ἀλκμήνης γενόμενον, καὶ ἀποθανόντα εἰς οὐρανὸν ἀνεληλυθέναι λέγωσιν, οὐχὶ τὴν, Ἰσχυρὸς ὡς γίγας δραμεῖν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ, περὶ Χριστοῦ λελεγμένην γραφὴν ὁμοίως μεμιμῆσθαι νοῶ; Ὅταν δὲ τὸν Ἀσκληπιὸν νεκροὺς ἀνεγείραντα καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πάθη θεραπεύσαντα παραφέρῃ, οὐχὶ τὰς περὶ Χριστοῦ ὁμοίως προφητείας μεμιμῆσθαι τοῦτον καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ φημί;

English · Claude translation

“And when they say that Heracles was strong and traveled over the whole earth, and was born to Zeus of Alcmene, and died and went up into heaven, do I not understand that the Scripture spoken of Christ, ‘Strong as a giant to run his course,’ was likewise imitated? And when he brings forward Asclepius as raising the dead and healing other diseases, do I not say that he likewise imitated the prophecies about Christ in this too?

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:334 · 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

Ps 19:5 (18:6 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 69.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/69/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 69.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/69/3/).