Dialogue with Trypho 56.11 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:252–254

Κἀγὼ πάλιν εἶπον· Ἐπὶ τὰς γραφὰς ἐπανελθὼν πειράσομαι πεῖσαι ὑμᾶς ὅτι οὗτος ὅ τε τῷ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τῷ Ἰακὼβ καὶ τῷ Μωσεῖ ὦφθαι λεγόμενος καὶ γεγραμμένος θεὸς ἕτερός ἐστι τοῦ τὰ πάντα ποιήσαντος θεοῦ, ἀριθμῷ λέγω ἀλλὰ οὐ γνώμῃ· οὐδὲν γὰρ φημι αὐτὸν πεπραχέναι ποτὲ ἢ ὡμιληκέναι ἢ ἅπερ αὐτὸν ὁ τὸν κόσμον πονήσας, ὑπὲρ ὃν ἄλλος οὐκ ἔστι θεός, βεβούληται καὶ πρᾶξαι καὶ ὁμιλῆσαι.

English · Claude translation

And I said again, “Going back to the Scriptures, I will try to persuade you that this one who is said and written to have appeared to Abraham and to Jacob and to Moses, and is called God, is other than the God who made all things, other, I mean, in number, but not in will. For I say that he has never done or spoken anything except what the one who made the world, above whom there is no other God, has willed him both to do and to speak.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:252–254 · 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

Trinity, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“Other in number, but not in will” (ἀριθμῷ … ἀλλὰ οὐ γνώμῃ): a famous formula, an early attempt to express the distinction of the Son from the Father while affirming their unity.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): Κἀγώ πάλιν → Κἀγὼ πάλιν; τὰς γραφάς ἐπανελθὼν → τὰς γραφὰς ἐπανελθὼν; θεὸς ἒτερός → θεὸς ἕτερός; ὑπὲρ ὅν ἄλλος → ὑπὲρ ὃν ἄλλος.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 56.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/11/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 56.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/11/).