Dialogue with Trypho 76.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: “Like a son of man” and “a stone cut without hands” show Christ's non-human origin.

Greek text · Archambault 2:6

Ὅταν γὰρ ὡς υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου λέγῃ Δανιὴλ τὸν παραλαμβάνοντα τὴν αἰώνιον βασιλείαν, οὐκ αὐτὸ τοῦτο αἰνίσσεται; Τὸ γὰρ ὡς υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου εἰπεῖν, φαινόμενον μὲν καὶ γενόμενον ἄνθρωπον μηνύει, οὐκ ἐξ ἀνθρωπίνου δὲ σπέρματος ὑπάρχοντα δηλοῖ. Καὶ τὸ λίθον τοῦτον εἰπεῖν ἄνευ χειρῶν τμηθέντα, ἐν μυστηρίῳ τὸ αὐτὸ κέκραγε· τὸ γὰρ ἄνευ χειρῶν εἰπεῖν αὐτὸν ἐκτετμῆσθαι δηλοῖ ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἀνθρώπινον ἔργον, ἀλλὰ τῆς βουλῆς τοῦ προβάλλοντος αὐτὸν πατρὸς τῶν ὅλων θεοῦ.

English · Claude translation

“For when Daniel speaks of the one who receives the eternal kingdom as ‘like a son of man,’ does he not hint at this very thing? For to say ‘like a son of man’ indicates that he appeared and became a man, but shows that he is not of human seed. And to call him a stone cut out without hands cries out the same thing in a mystery; for to say that he was cut out without hands shows that he is not a human work, but of the will of God, the Father of all, who put him forth.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:6 · 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 7:13 · allusion, high confidence
Dan 2:34 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 76.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/76/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 76.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/76/1/).