Dialogue with Trypho 69.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:338

Οἱ δὲ καὶ ταῦτα ὁρῶντες γινόμενα φαντασίαν μαγικὴν γίνεσθαι ἔλεγον· καὶ γὰρ μάγον εἶναι αὐτὸν ἐτόλμων λέγειν καὶ λαοπλάνον. Αὐτὸς δὲ καὶ ταῦτα ἐποίει πείθων καὶ τοὺς ἐπʼ αὐτὸν πιστεύειν μέλλοντας, ὅτι, κἂν τις, ἐν λώβῃ τινὶ σώματος ὑπάρχων, φύλαξ τῶν παραδεδομένων ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ διδαγμάτων ὑπάρξῃ, ὁλόκληρον αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ αὐτοῦ παρουσίᾳ μετὰ τοῦ καὶ ἀθάνατον καὶ ἄφθαρτον καὶ ἀλύπητον ποιῆσαι ἀναστήσει.

English · Claude translation

“But they, even seeing these things done, said it was a magical appearance; for they even dared to call him a magician and a deceiver of the people. But he did these things also to persuade those who were to believe in him, that even if anyone has some bodily defect, if he is a keeper of the teachings handed down by him, he will raise him up whole at his second coming, and make him also immortal and incorruptible and free from grief.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:338 · 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

Matt 27:63 · echo, medium confidence
John 7:12 · echo, medium confidence
1 Cor 15:52 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

The charge that Jesus was a magician and deceiver appears in later Jewish sources (b. Sanh. 43a) and in Celsus.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): κἄν τις, ἐν λώβῃ → κἂν τις, ἐν λώβῃ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 69.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/69/7/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 69.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/69/7/).