Dialogue with Trypho 77.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:14

Κἀγὼ ἔφην· Ὡς βούλεσθε, καὶ τοῦτο πράξω· ἀποδείξατε δέ μοι ὑμεῖς πρῶτον ὅτι εἰς τὸν Ἐζεκίαν εἴρηται, ὅτι, πρὶν ἢ γνῶναι αὐτὸν καλεῖν πατέρα ἢ μητέρα, ἔλαβε δύναμιν Δαμασκοῦ καὶ τὰ σκύλα Σαμαρείας ἔναντι βασιλέως Ἀσσυρίων. Οὐ γὰρ ὡς βούλεσθε ἐξηγεῖσθαι συγχωρηθήσεται ὑμῖν, ὅτι Ἐζεκίας ἐπολέμησε τοῖς ἐν Δαμασκῷ ἢ ἐν Σαμαρείᾳ ἔναντι βασιλέως Ἀσσυρίων. Πρὶν ἢ γὰρ γνῶναι τὸ παιδίον καλεῖν πατέρα ἢ μητέρα, ὁ προφητικὸς λόγος ἔφη, λήψεται δύναμιν Δαμασκοῦ καὶ σκύλα Σαμαρείας ἔναντι βασιλέως Ἀσσυρίων.

English · Claude translation

And I said, “As you wish, I will do this too; but first prove to me that it was spoken of Hezekiah, that before he knew how to call father or mother he took the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of Assyria. For you will not be allowed to explain it as you wish, that Hezekiah made war against those in Damascus or in Samaria before the king of Assyria. For ‘before the child knows how to call father or mother,’ the prophetic word said, ‘he shall take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of Assyria.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:14 · 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

Isa 8:4 · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): πατέρα ἣ μητέρα, ἔλαβε → πατέρα ἢ μητέρα, ἔλαβε.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 77.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/77/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 77.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/77/2/).