Dialogue with Trypho 30.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:132

Ἀπὸ γὰρ τῶν δαιμονίων, ἅ ἐστιν ἀλλότρια τῆς θεοσεβείας τοῦ θεοῦ, οἷς πάλαι προσεκυνοῦμεν, τὸν θεὸν ἀεὶ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ συντηρηθῆναι παρακαλοῦμεν, ἵνα μετὰ τὸ ἐπιστρέψαι πρὸς θεὸν διʼ αὐτοῦ ἄμωμοι ὦμεν. Βοηθὸν γὰρ ἐκεῖνον καὶ λυτρωτὴν καλοῦμεν, οὗ καὶ τὴν τοῦ ὀνόματος ἰσχὺν καὶ τὰ δαιμόνια τρέμει, καὶ σήμερον ἐξορκιζόμενα κατὰ τοῦ ὀνόματος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, τοῦ σταυρωθέντος ἐπὶ Ποντίου Πιλάτου, τοῦ γενομένου ἐπιτρόπου τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ὑποτάσσεται, ὡς καὶ ἐκ τούτου πᾶσι φανερὸν εἶναι ὅτι ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ τοσαύτην ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ δύναμιν, ὥστε καὶ τὰ δαιμόνια ὑποτάσσεσθαι τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ καὶ τῇ τοῦ γενομένου πάθους αὐτοῦ οἰκονομίᾳ.

English · Claude translation

“For we always ask God, through Jesus Christ, to be kept from the demons, which are strangers to the worship of God, whom we once worshiped, so that after turning to God through him we may be blameless. For we call him Helper and Redeemer, the power of whose name even the demons fear; and today, when they are exorcised in the name of Jesus Christ, who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, the procurator of Judea, they are subdued; so that from this too it is plain to all that his Father has given him so great power that even the demons are subject to his name and to the dispensation of the passion that he underwent.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:132 · 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

Luke 10:17 · echo, high confidence
Jas 2:19 · echo, medium confidence
Phil 2:10 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology, Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

The formula “crucified under Pontius Pilate” recurs in Justin's descriptions of exorcism; compare 2 Apol. 5.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): οἶς πάλαι → οἷς πάλαι.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 30.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/30/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 30.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/30/3/).