Dialogue with Trypho 60.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Even so, the one who spoke was not the Father, who does not leave heaven to appear in a corner of the earth.

Greek text · Archambault 1:278–280

Κἀγὼ πάλιν ἀπεκρινάμην· Εἰ καὶ γέγονε τότε, ὦ φίλοι, ὡς καὶ ἄγγελον καὶ θεὸν ὁμοῦ ἐν τῇ ὀπτασίᾳ τῇ τῷ Μωσεῖ γενομένῃ ὑπάρξαι, ὡς καὶ ἀποδέδεικται ὑμῖν διὰ τῶν προγεγραμμένων λόγων, οὐχ ὁ ποιητὴς τῶν ὅλων ἔσται θεὸς ὁ τῷ Μωσεῖ εἰπὼν αὐτὸν εἶναι θεὸν Ἀβραὰμ καὶ θεὸν Ἰσαὰκ καὶ θεὸν Ἰακώβ, ἀλλʼ ὁ ἀποδειχθεὶς ὑμῖν ὦφθαι τῷ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τῷ Ἰακώβ, τῇ τοῦ ποιητοῦ τῶν ὅλων θελήσει ὑπηρετῶν καὶ ἐν τῇ κρίσει τῶν Σοδόμων τῇ βουλῇ αὐτοῦ ὁμοίως ὑπηρετήσας· ὥστε, κἂν ὥς φατε ἔχῃ, ὅτι δύο ἦσαν, καὶ ἄγγελος καὶ θεός, οὐ τὸν ποιητὴν τῶν ὅλων καὶ πατέρα, καταλιπόντα τὰ ὑπὲρ οὐρανὸν ἅπαντα, ἐν ὀλίγῳ γῆς μορίῳ πεφάνθαι πᾶς ὁστισοῦν, κἂν μικρὸν νοῦν ἔχων, τολμήσει εἰπεῖν.

English · Claude translation

And I answered again, “Even if it happened then, friends, that both an angel and God were together in the vision given to Moses, as has also been proved to you by the words quoted before, the one who told Moses that he was the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob will not be God the Maker of all, but the one who has been proved to you to have appeared to Abraham and to Jacob, serving the will of the Maker of all, and likewise serving his counsel in the judgment of Sodom; so that, even if it is as you say, that there were two, an angel and God, no one at all with even a little sense will dare to say that the Maker and Father of all left everything above heaven and appeared in a little corner of the earth.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:278–280 · 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

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 60.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/60/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 60.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/60/2/).