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Dialogue with Trypho 67.2

Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho · ca. 155–160 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Trypho compares the virgin birth to the Greek myth of Perseus and urges Justin to call Jesus a man chosen for his righteousness.

Greek text · Archambault 1:318–320

Ἐν δὲ τοῖς τῶν λεγομένων Ἑλλήνων μύθοις λέλεκται ὅτι Περσεὺς ἐκ Δανάης, παρθένου οὔσης, ἐν χρυσοῦ μορφῇ ῥεύσαντος ἐπʼ αὐτὴν τοῦ παρʼ αὐτοῖς Διὸς καλουμένου, γεγέννηται· καὶ ὑμεῖς τὰ αὐτὰ ἐκείνοις λέγοντες αἰδεῖσθαι ὀφείλετε, καὶ μᾶλλον ἄνθρωπον ἐξ ἀνθρώπων γενόμενον λέγειν τὸν Ἰησοῦν τοῦτον, καί, ἐὰν ἀποδείκνυτε ἀπὸ τῶν γραφῶν ὅτι αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός, διὰ τὸ ἐννόμως καὶ τελέως πολιτεύεσθαι αὐτὸν κατηξιῶσθαι τοῦ ἐκλεγῆναι εἰς Χριστόν, ἀλλὰ μὴ τερατολογεῖν τολμᾶτε, ὅπως μηδὲ ὁμοίως τοῖς Ἕλλησι μωραίνειν ἐλέγχησθε.

English · Claude translation

“And in the myths of those called Greeks it is said that Perseus was born of Danaë, who was a virgin, when the one they call Zeus flowed upon her in the form of gold; and you, saying the same things as they, ought to be ashamed, and rather say that this Jesus was born a man of men; and, if you prove from the Scriptures that he is the Christ, that he was counted worthy to be chosen as Christ because he lived according to the law and perfectly; but do not dare to tell marvels, so that you may not be convicted of folly like the Greeks.”

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Source
Archambault 1:318–320 · 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

Notes

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  • Digital text corrected (damaged spot in the digital text; restored from the sense): (??)ν δὲ τοῖς → Ἐν δὲ τοῖς.

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Justin, Dial. 67.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/67/2/).

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Justin, Dial. 67.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/67/2/).

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