Dialogue with Trypho 62.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:290–292

Καὶ ὅπως μή, ἀλλάσσοντες τοὺς προλελεγμένους λόγους, ἐκεῖνα λέγητε ἃ οἱ διδάσκαλοι ὑμῶν λέγουσιν, ἢ ὅτι πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἔλεγεν ὁ θεὸς Ποιήσωμεν, ὁποῖον καὶ ἡμεῖς μέλλοντές τι ποιεῖν πολλάκις πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς λέγομεν Ποιήσωμεν, ἢ ὅτι πρὸς τὰ στοιχεῖα, τουτέστι τὴν γῆν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ὁμοίως, ἐξ ὧν νοοῦμεν τὸν ἄνθρωπον γεγονέναι, θεὸν εἰρηκέναι Ποιήσωμεν, λόγους τοὺς εἰρημένους ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Μωσέως πάλιν ἱστορήσω, ἐξ ὧν ἀναμφιλέκτως πρός τινα, καὶ ἀριθμῷ ὄντα ἕτερον καὶ λογικὸν ὑπάρχοντα, ὡμιληκέναι αὐτὸν ἐπιγνῶναι ἔχομεν.

English · Claude translation

“And so that you may not change the words just quoted and say what your teachers say, either that God said ‘Let us make’ to himself, as we too often say ‘Let us make’ to ourselves when we are about to make something, or that God said ‘Let us make’ to the elements, that is, the earth and the others likewise, of which we understand man to have been made, I will recount again the words spoken by Moses himself, from which we can know beyond dispute that he conversed with someone who was numerically distinct and rational.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:290–292 · 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

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): Καὶ ὄπως μή → Καὶ ὅπως μή.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 62.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/62/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 62.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/62/2/).