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Dialogue with Trypho 88.3

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

Summary: At Jesus' baptism fire was kindled in the Jordan and the Spirit came like a dove.

Greek text · Archambault 2:72–74

Καὶ τότε ἐλθόντος τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰορδάνην ποταμόν, ἔνθα ὁ Ἰωάννης ἐβάπτιζε, κατελθόντος τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ πῦρ ἀνήφθη ἐν τῷ Ἰορδάνῃ, καὶ ἀναδύντος αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕδατος ὡς περιστερὰν τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα ἐπιπτῆναι ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ἔγραψαν οἱ ἀπόστολοι αὐτοῦ τούτου τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἡμῶν.

English · Claude translation

“And then, when Jesus came to the river Jordan where John was baptizing, when Jesus went down into the water, a fire was also kindled in the Jordan; and when he came up from the water, the apostles of this very Christ of ours wrote that the Holy Spirit lighted on him like a dove.

About this passage

Source
Archambault 2:72–74 · 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
Topics
Baptism, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The fire in the Jordan is not in the canonical Gospels; it appears in some Old Latin manuscripts and in the Gospel of the Ebionites. Justin attributes only the dove to the apostles' writings.

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Justin, Dial. 88.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/88/3/).

Plain text
Justin, Dial. 88.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/88/3/).

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