Dialogue with Trypho 79.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Justin cites Scripture for evil angels.

Greek text · Archambault 2:26–28

Κἀγὼ ἐνδοτικώτερον τῇ φωνῇ, παρασκευάσαι αὐτὸν βουλόμενος πρὸς τὸ ἀκούειν μου, ἀπεκρινάμην λέγων· Ἄγαμαί σου, ἄνθρωπε, τὸ εὐλαβὲς τοῦτο, καὶ εὔχομαι τὴν αὐτὴν διάθεσίν σε ἔχειν καὶ περὶ ὃν διακονεῖν γεγραμμένοι εἰσὶν οἱ ἄγγελοι, ὡς Δανιήλ φησιν, ὅτι ὡς υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου πρὸς τὸν παλαιὸν τῶν ἡμερῶν προσάγεται, καὶ αὐτῷ δίδοται πᾶσα βασιλεία εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος. Ἵνα δὲ γνωρίζῃς, εἶπον, ὦ ἄνθρωπε, μὴ ἡμετέρᾳ τόλμῃ χρησαμένους τὴν ἐξήγησιν ταύτην, ἣν μέμφῃ, πεποιῆσθαι ἡμᾶς, μαρτυρίαν σοι ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Ἡσαΐου δώσω, ὅτι πονηροὺς ἀγγέλους κατῳκηκέναι καὶ κατοικεῖν λέγει καὶ ἐν Τάνει, τῇ Αἰγυπτίᾳ χώρᾳ.

English · Claude translation

And I answered in a milder voice, wishing to prepare him to listen to me: “I admire this reverence of yours, sir, and I pray that you may have the same disposition toward him whom the angels are written to serve, as Daniel says, that one like a son of man is brought to the Ancient of Days, and all the kingdom is given to him forever and ever. And so that you may know, sir,” I said, “that we have not made this interpretation which you blame by using our own daring, I will give you testimony from Isaiah himself, that he says that evil angels have dwelt and dwell in Tanis, in the land of Egypt.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:26–28 · 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

Dan 7:10 · allusion, medium confidence
Dan 7:13 · allusion, high confidence
Dan 7:14 · allusion, high confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 79.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/79/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 79.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/79/2/).