Dialogue with Trypho 70.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:338–340

Ὅταν δὲ οἱ τὰ τοῦ Μίθρου μυστήρια παραδιδόντες λέγωσιν ἐκ πέτρας γεγεννῆσθαι αὐτόν, καὶ σπήλαιον καλῶσι τὸν τόπον ἔνθα μυεῖν τοὺς πειθομένους αὐτῷ παραδιδοῦσιν, ἐνταῦθα οὐχὶ τὸ εἰρημένον ὑπὸ Δανιήλ, ὅτι Λίθος ἄνευ χειρῶν ἐτμήθη ἐξ ὄρους μεγάλου, μεμιμῆσθαι αὐτοὺς ἐπίσταμαι, καὶ τὰ ὑπὸ Ἡσαίου ὁμοίως, οὗ καὶ τοὺς λόγους πάντας μιμήσασθαι ἐπεχείρησαν; Δικαιοπραξίας γὰρ λόγους καὶ παρʼ ἐκείνοις λέγεσθαι ἐτεχνάσαντο.

English · Claude translation

“And when those who hand down the mysteries of Mithras say that he was born of a rock, and call the place where they initiate those who believe in him a cave, do I not know that here they imitated what was said by Daniel, that ‘a stone was cut out without hands from a great mountain,’ and likewise the words of Isaiah, all of whose words they tried to imitate? For they contrived that words of righteousness should be spoken among them too.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:338–340 · 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

Dan 2:34 · quotation, high confidence
Dan 2:45 · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing accent)): ὑπο Δανιήλ → ὑπὸ Δανιήλ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 70.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/70/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 70.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/70/1/).