Dialogue with Trypho 34.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:148–150

Ἵνα δὲ καὶ ὃ εἶπον νοήσητε, τοὺς τοῦ ψαλμοῦ λόγους λέγω. Εἰσὶ δʼ οὗτοι· Ὁ θεὸς, τὸ κρίμα σου τῷ βασιλεῖ δὸς καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου τῷ υἱῷ τοῦ βασιλέως, κρίνειν τὸν λαόν σου ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ τοὺς πτωχούς σου ἐν κρίσει. Ἀναλαβέτω τὰ ὄρη εἰρήνην τῷ λαῷ καὶ οἱ βουνοὶ δικαιοσύνην. Κρινεῖ τοὺς πτωχοὺς τοῦ λαοῦ, καὶ σώσει τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν πενήτων, καὶ ταπεινώσει συκοφάντην· καὶ συμπαραμενεῖ τῷ ἡλίῳ καὶ πρὸ τῆς σελήνης εἰς γενεὰς γενεῶν. Καταβήσεται ὡς ὑετὸς ἐπὶ πόκον καὶ ὡσεὶ σταγὼν ἡ στάζουσα ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν.

English · Claude translation

“And so that you may understand what I have said, I give the words of the psalm. They are these: ‘O God, give your judgment to the king, and your righteousness to the king's son, to judge your people in righteousness and your poor in judgment. Let the mountains bring peace to the people, and the hills righteousness. He will judge the poor of the people, and save the sons of the needy, and humble the slanderer; and he will endure with the sun and before the moon to generations of generations. He will come down like rain on a fleece, and like drops that drip upon the earth.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:148–150 · 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

Ps 72:1 (71:1 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 72:2 (71:2 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 72:3 (71:3 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 72:4 (71:4 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 72:5 (71:5 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 72:6 (71:6 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): Ἵνα δὲ καὶ ὅ εἶπον → Ἵνα δὲ καὶ ὃ εἶπον; σου ὲν κρίσει → σου ἐν κρίσει.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 34.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/34/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 34.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/34/3/).