The critical edition of The
Dialogue with Trypho uncovers no Deuterocanon cited by St. Justin, save one
secure citation from 2 Ezra 6:19-21. See Philippe Bobichon and Justin Martyr, Dialogue
avec Tryphon: Édition critique, traduction, commenaire, Paradosis: Études
de littéture et de théologie ancienns 47.102 (Fribourg, 2003), 1:380, 2:1040.
Justin does assume that Trypho accepts this book cited within a string of other
Scripture (e.g., Jeremiah). The critical edition of St. Justin’s two apologies
(Oxford, 2009) betrays a paucity of Old and New Testament books cited so that
it is not possible to say whether St. Justin would have been using Deuterocanon
when writing to groups outside of Jews. (Martin Jugie, A Complete History of
the Biblical Canon in the Christian East and West, Volume 1: Greek, Latin, and
Slavic Biblical Canon from the New Testament Until AD 1500, translated,
edited and expanded by Christiaan Kappes [N.P.: Patristic Pillars, 2022], 189
n. 21)
