Dialogue with Trypho 61.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:286–288

Μαρτυρήσει δέ μοι ὁ λόγος τῆς σοφίας, αὐτὸς ὢν οὗτος ὁ θεὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς τῶν ὅλων γεννηθείς, καὶ λόγος καὶ σοφία καὶ δύναμις καὶ δόξα τοῦ γεννήσαντος ὑπάρχων, καὶ διὰ Σολομῶνος φήσαντος ταῦτα· Ἐὰν ἀναγγείλω ὑμῖν τὰ καθʼ ἡμέραν γινόμενα, μνημονεύσω τὰ ἐξ αἰῶνος ἀριθμῆσαι. Κύριος ἔκτισέ με ἀρχὴν ὁδῶν αὐτοῦ εἰς ἔργα αὐτοῦ. Πρὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος ἐθεμελίωσέ με, ἐν ἀρχῇ, πρὸ τοῦ τὴν γῆν ποιῆσαι καὶ πρὸ τοῦ τὰς ἀβύσσους ποιῆσαι, πρὸ τοῦ τὰς πηγὰς προελθεῖν τῶν ὑδάτων, πρὸ τοῦ τὰ ὄρη ἑδρασθῆναι· πρὸ δὲ πάντων τῶν βουνῶν γεννᾷ με.

English · Claude translation

“And the Word of Wisdom will testify for me, he himself being this God begotten from the Father of all, and being Word and Wisdom and Power and Glory of the one who begot him, and speaking through Solomon thus: ‘If I declare to you the things that happen day by day, I will remember to recount the things from eternity. The Lord created me the beginning of his ways for his works. Before the age he founded me, in the beginning, before he made the earth and before he made the depths, before the springs of the waters came forth, before the mountains were settled; and before all the hills he begets me.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:286–288 · 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

Prov 8:21 · quotation, high confidence
Prov 8:22 · quotation, high confidence
Prov 8:23 · quotation, high confidence
Prov 8:24 · quotation, high confidence
Prov 8:25 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

“The Lord created me” (ἔκτισε): the LXX of Prov 8:22, later central to the Arian controversy. Justin uses it alongside “begets me.”

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 61.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/61/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 61.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/61/3/).