Dialogue with Trypho 106.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:154

Καὶ ὅτι ὡς ἄστρον ἔμελλεν ἀνατέλλειν αὐτὸς διὰ τοῦ γένους τοῦ Ἀβραάμ, Μωσῆς παρεδήλωσεν οὕτως εἰπών· Ἀνατελεῖ ἄστρον ἐξ Ἰακὼβ καὶ ἡγούμενος ἐξ Ἰσραήλ. Καὶ ἄλλη δὲ γραφή φησιν· Ἰδοὺ ἀνήρ, ἀνατολὴ ὄνομα αὐτῷ. Ἀνατείλαντος οὖν καὶ ἐν οὐρανῷ ἅμα τῷ γεννηθῆναι αὐτὸν ἀστέρος, ὡς γέγραπται ἐν τοῖς ἀπομνημονεύμασι τῶν ἀποστόλων αὐτοῦ, οἱ ἀπὸ Ἀρραβίας μάγοι, ἐκ τούτου ἐπιγνόντες, παρεγένοντο καὶ προσεκύνησαν αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

“And that he was to rise like a star through the race of Abraham, Moses indicated, saying thus: ‘A star shall rise from Jacob, and a leader from Israel.’ And another Scripture says: ‘Behold a man; the East is his name.’ When, then, a star rose in heaven too as soon as he was born, as is written in the memoirs of his apostles, the Magi from Arabia, recognizing it from this, came and worshiped him.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:154 · 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

Text

As printed in Archambault. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

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.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Scripture

Num 24:17 · quotation, high confidence
Zech 6:12 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 2:2 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 2:11 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“The East” (ἀνατολή): the LXX of Zech 6:12, where the Hebrew has “Branch.”

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray full stop in the digital text): Ἀβραάμ., Μωσῆς → Ἀβραάμ, Μωσῆς.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 106.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/106/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 106.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/106/4/).