Sophia Scriptura

Dialogue with Trypho 88.1

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Women and men in the church have spiritual gifts; Christ did not lack power, as the Magi's worship shows.

Greek text · Archambault 2:72

Καὶ παρʼ ἡμῖν ἔστιν ἰδεῖν καὶ θηλείας καὶ ἄρσενας, χαρίσματα ἀπὸ τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ θεοῦ ἔχοντας. Ὥστε οὐ διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν ἐνδεῆ δυνάμεως ἐπεπροφήτευτο ἐλεύσεσθαι ἐπʼ αὐτὸν τὰς δυνάμεις τὰς κατηριθμημένας ὑπὸ Ἡσαΐου, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ ἐπέκεινα μὴ μέλλειν ἔσεσθαι. Μαρτύριον δὲ καὶ τοῦτο ἔστω ὑμῖν, ὃ ἔφην πρὸς ὑμᾶς γεγονέναι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀπὸ Ἀρραβίας μάγων, οἵτινες ἅμα τῷ γεννηθῆναι τὸ παιδίον ἐλθόντες προσεκύνησαν αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

“And among us one can see both women and men who have gifts from the Spirit of God. So it was not because he lacked power that it was prophesied that the powers listed by Isaiah would come upon him, but because they would not continue beyond him. And let this too be a testimony to you, which I told you was done by the Magi from Arabia, who came and worshiped the child as soon as he was born.

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Source
Archambault 2:72 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • Justin testifies that women as well as men exercised spiritual gifts in the church of his day.

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Justin, Dial. 88.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/88/1/).

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Justin, Dial. 88.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/88/1/).

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