Dialogue with Trypho 88.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:76–80

Καὶ ἐλθόντος τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰορδάνην, καὶ νομιζομένου Ἰωσὴφ τοῦ τέκτονος υἱοῦ ὑπάρχειν, καὶ ἀειδοῦς, ὡς αἱ γραφαὶ ἐκήρυσσον, φαινομένου, καὶ τέκτονος νομιζομένου (ταῦτα γὰρ τὰ τεκτονικὰ ἔργα εἰργάζετο ἐν ἀνθρώποις ὤν, ἄροτρα καὶ ζυγά, διὰ τούτων καὶ τὰ τῆς δικαιοσύνης σύμβολα διδάσκων καὶ ἐνεργῆ βίον), τὸ πνεῦμα οὖν τὸ ἅγιον καὶ διὰ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, ὡς προέφην, ἐν εἴδει περιστερᾶς ἐπέπτη αὐτῷ, καὶ φωνὴ ἐκ τῶν οὐρανῶν ἅμα ἐληλύθει, ἥτις καὶ διὰ Δαυῒδ λεγομένη, ὡς ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ λέγοντος ὅπερ αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς ἔμελλε λέγεσθαι· Υἱός μου εἶ σύ, ἐγὼ σήμερον γεγέννηκά σε· τότε γένεσιν αὐτοῦ λέγων γίνεσθαι τοῖς ἀνθρώποις, ἐξ ὅτου ἡ γνῶσις αὐτοῦ ἔμελλε γίνεσθαι.

English · Claude translation

“And when Jesus came to the Jordan, and was thought to be the son of Joseph the carpenter, and appeared without form, as the Scriptures proclaimed, and was thought to be a carpenter (for he made these carpenter's works when he was among men, plows and yokes, by these teaching also the symbols of righteousness and an active life), the Holy Spirit, then, for the sake of men, as I said before, lighted on him in the form of a dove, and at the same time a voice came from the heavens, which was also spoken through David, as from his person, saying what was to be said to him by the Father: ‘You are my Son; today I have begotten you’; saying that his birth then took place for men, from the time when the knowledge of him was to come about.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:76–80 · 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

Matt 13:55 · allusion, high confidence
Mark 6:3 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 53:2 · allusion, high confidence
Luke 3:22 · quotation, high confidence
Ps 2:7 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology, Baptism

Notes

Translation notes

Justin's text of the voice at the baptism (Ps 2:7) matches the Western text of Luke 3:22.
“Plows and yokes”: a detail not in the Gospels; compare Mark 6:3.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (spacing slip in the digital text; the editor's reference (Luke 3:21–22; Ps 2:7), printed in the text with an unclosed bracket, removed): ἐνεργῆ βίον ) → ἐνεργῆ βίον); γεγέννηκά σε [cf. LUC, III, 21-22 et Ps., II, 7· τότε → γεγέννηκά σε· τότε.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 88.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/88/8/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 88.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/88/8/).