Dialogue with Trypho 115.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Zechariah saw Joshua the priest in a vision, in ecstasy.

Greek text · Archambault 2:190–192

Μέλλοντί τε τῷ Τρύφωνι ἀποκρίνεσθαι καὶ ἀντιλέγειν μοι ἔφην· Πρῶτον ἀνάμεινον καὶ ἄκουσον ἃ λέγω. Οὐ γὰρ ἣν ὑπολαμβάνεις ἐξήγησιν ποιεῖσθαι μέλλω, ὡς μὴ γεγενημένου ἱερέως τινὸς Ἰησοῦ ὀνόματι ἐν τῇ Βαβυλωνίᾳ γῇ, ὅπου αἰχμάλωτος ὁ λαὸς ὑμῶν. Ὅπερ εἰ καὶ ἐποίουν, ἀπέδειξα ὅτι ἦν μὲν Ἰησοῦς ἱερεὺς ἐν τῷ γένει ὑμῶν· τοῦτον δὲ αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐν τῇ ἀποκαλύψει αὐτοῦ ἑωράκει ὁ προφήτης, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ τὸν διάβολον καὶ τὸν τοῦ κυρίου ἄγγελον οὐκ αὐτοψίᾳ, ἐν καταστάσει ὤν, ἑωράκει, ἀλλʼ ἐν ἐκστάσει, ἀποκαλύψεως αὐτῷ γεγενημένης.

English · Claude translation

And when Trypho was about to answer and contradict me, I said: “First wait and hear what I say. For I am not going to give the explanation you suppose, as though there had not been a priest named Joshua in the land of Babylon, where your people were captive. Even if I did, I have shown that there was a priest Joshua in your race; but the prophet did not see him in his revelation, just as he did not see the devil and the angel of the Lord with his own eyes, in a normal state, but in ecstasy, when a revelation was given him.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:190–192 · 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.

Topics

Scripture and canon

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 115.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/115/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 115.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/115/3/).