Justin Martyr understands the "Son of Man" in Daniel 7 to be a prophecy of Jesus's virginal conception.

Date
2021
Type
Manuscript
Source
Justin Martyr
Ancient
Hearsay
Translation
Reference

Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 100.3, in Gregory R. Lanier, Corpus Christologicum: Texts and Translations for the Study of Jewish Messianism and Early Christology (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Academic: An Imprint of Hendrickson Publishing Group, 2021), 628 (Logos ed.)

Scribe/Publisher
Logos, Hendrickson Academic
People
Justin Martyr
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

υἱὸν οὖν ἀνθρώπου ἑαυτὸν ἔλεγεν, ἤτοι ἀπὸ τῆς γεννήσεως τῆς διὰ παρθένου, ἥτις ἦν, ὡς ἔφην, ἀπὸ τοῦ Δαυὶδ καὶ Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἀβραὰμ γένους, ἢ διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτοῦ τὸν Ἀδὰμ πατέρα καὶ τούτων τῶν κατηριθμημένων, ἐξ ὧν κατάγει ἡ Μαρία τὸ γένος.

Therefore, he spoke of himself as “Son of Man,” either because of his birth through a virgin, who was, as I said, from the lineage of David and Jacob and Isaac and Abraham—or because Adam was father of him and of those enumerated, from whom Mary derives lineage.

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