Dialogue with Trypho 88.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christ grew up as other men until John came.

Greek text · Archambault 2:72

Καὶ γὰρ γεννηθεὶς δύναμιν τὴν αὐτοῦ ἔσχε· καὶ αὐξάνων κατὰ τὸ κοινὸν τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων ἀνθρώπων, χρώμενος τοῖς ἁρμόζουσιν, ἑκάστῃ αὐξήσει τὸ οἰκεῖον ἀπένειμε, τρεφόμενος τὰς πάσας τροφάς, καὶ τριάκοντα ἔτη ἢ πλείονα ἢ καὶ ἐλάσσονα μείνας, μέχρις οὗ προελήλυθεν Ἰωάννης κῆρυξ αὐτοῦ τῆς παρουσίας καὶ τὴν τοῦ βαπτίσματος ὁδὸν προϊών, ὡς καὶ προαπέδειξα.

English · Claude translation

“For even at his birth he had his power; and growing up in the common way of all other men, using what was fitting, he assigned to each stage of growth what belonged to it, being nourished by all kinds of food, and he remained thirty years, more or less, until John appeared as the herald of his coming and went before him on the way of baptism, as I showed before.

About this passage

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)

Scripture

Luke 2:52 · echo, medium confidence
Luke 3:23 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 88.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/88/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 88.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/88/2/).