Dialogue with Trypho 106.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:152–154

Καὶ τὸ εἰπεῖν μετωνομακέναι αὐτὸν Πέτρον ἕνα τῶν ἀποστόλων, καὶ γεγράφθαι ἐν τοῖς ἀπομνημονεύμασιν αὐτοῦ γεγενημένον καὶ τοῦτο, μετὰ τοῦ καὶ ἄλλους δύο ἀδελφούς, υἱοὺς Ζεβεδαίου ὄντας, μετωνομακέναι ὀνόματι τοῦ Βοανεργές, ὅ ἐστιν υἱοὶ βροντῆς, σημαντικὸν ἦν τοῦ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον εἶναι, διʼ οὗ καὶ τὸ ἐπώνυμον Ἰακὼβ τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπικληθέντι ἐδόθη καὶ τῷ Αὐσῇ ὄνομα Ἰησοῦς ἐπεκλήθη, διʼ οὗ ὀνόματος καὶ εἰσήχθη εἰς τὴν ἐπηγγελμένην τοῖς πατριάρχαις γῆν ὁ περιλειφθεὶς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀπʼ Αἰγύπτου ἐξελθόντων λαός.

English · Claude translation

“And the statement that he changed the name of one of the apostles to Peter, and that this is written in his memoirs as having happened, together with his changing the names of two other brothers, the sons of Zebedee, to Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder, was a sign that he was the same one through whom the surname Israel was given to Jacob, and the name Jesus was given to Hoshea, by whose name the people who survived of those who came out of Egypt were brought into the land promised to the patriarchs.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:152–154 · 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

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.

Scripture

Mark 3:16 · allusion, high confidence
Mark 3:17 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 32:28 · allusion, high confidence
Num 13:16 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

“His memoirs”: probably Peter's, i.e. the Gospel of Mark, the only Gospel that records the name Boanerges (Mark 3:17).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): διʼ οὖ ὀνόματος → διʼ οὗ ὀνόματος.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 106.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/106/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 106.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/106/3/).