Dialogue with Trypho 34.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: None of Psalm 72 was fulfilled in Solomon.

Greek text · Archambault 1:152

Καὶ ὅτι μὲν βασιλεὺς ἐγένετο ἐπιφανὴς καὶ μέγας ὁ Σολομὼν, ἐφʼ οὗ ὁ οἶκος ὁ ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐπικληθεὶς ἀνῳκοδομήθη, ἐπίσταμαι, ὅτι δὲ οὐδὲν τῶν ἐν τῷ ψαλμῷ εἰρημένων συνέβη αὐτῷ, φαίνεται. Οὔτε γὰρ πάντες οἱ βασιλεῖς προσεκύνησαν αὐτῷ, οὔτε μέχρι τῶν περάτων τῆς οἰκουμένης ἐβασίλευσεν, οὔτε οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτοῦ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ πεσόντες χοῦν ἔλειξαν.

English · Claude translation

“And I know that Solomon was a famous and great king, under whom the house in Jerusalem called by God's name was built; but it is plain that none of the things said in the psalm happened to him. For neither did all the kings worship him, nor did he reign to the ends of the world, nor did his enemies fall before him and lick the dust.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:152 · 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)

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 34.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/34/7/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 34.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/34/7/).