Dialogue with Trypho 56.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The one who returned is called God.

Greek text · Archambault 1:250–252

Νενοήκατε οὖν ὅτι ὁ εἰπὼν τότε ὑπὸ τὴν δρῦν ἐπαναστρέψαι, ὡς προηπίστατο ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι τῷ Ἀβραὰμ συμβουλεῦσαι ἅπερ ἐβούλετο αὐτὸν Σάρρα, ἐπανελήλυθεν, ὡς γέγραπται, καὶ θεός ἐστιν, ὡς οἱ λόγοι σημαίνουσιν οὕτως εἰρημένοι· Εἶπε δὲ ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἀβραάμ· Μὴ σκληρὸν ἔστω ἐναντίον σου περὶ τοῦ παιδίου καὶ περὶ τῆς παιδίσκης; ἐπυνθανόμην.

English · Claude translation

“Have you understood, then, that he who said then under the oak that he would return, since he foreknew that it would be necessary to counsel Abraham to do what Sarah wished him, did return, as it is written, and is God, as the words indicate, spoken thus: ‘And God said to Abraham: Let it not be hard in your eyes because of the child and the maidservant’?” I asked.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:250–252 · 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

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 56.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/8/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 56.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/56/8/).