Dialogue with Trypho 38.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:170–172

Ὁ θρόνος σου, ὁ θεός, εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος· ῥάβδος εὐθύτητος ἡ ῥάβδος τῆς βασιλείας σου. Ἠγάπησας δικαιοσύνην καὶ ἐμίσησας ἀνομίαν· διὰ τοῦτο ἔχρισέ σε, ὁ θεός, ὁ θεός σου ἔλαιον ἀγαλλιάσεως παρὰ τοὺς μετόχους σου. Σμύρναν καὶ στακτὴν καὶ κασίαν ἀπὸ τῶν ἱματίων σου, ἀπὸ βάρεων ἐλεφαντίνων, ἐξ ὧν εὔφρανάν σε. Θυγατέρες βασιλέων ἐν τῇ τιμῇ σου· παρέστη ἡ βασίλισσα ἐκ δεξιῶν σου, ἐν ἱματισμῷ διαχρύσῳ περιβεβλημένη, πεποικιλμένη. Ἄκουσον, θύγατερ, καὶ ἴδε καὶ κλῖνον τὸ οὖς σου, καὶ ἐπιλάθου τοῦ λαοῦ σου καὶ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός σου· καὶ ἐπιθυμήσει ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ κάλλους σου, ὅτι αὐτός ἐστι κύριός σου, καὶ προσκυνήσουσιν αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

“‘Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; the scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your companions. Myrrh and stacte and cassia are from your garments, from ivory palaces, from which they have made you glad. Kings' daughters are in your honor; the queen stood at your right hand, clothed in garments of gold, in many colors. Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house; and the king shall desire your beauty, for he is your lord, and they shall worship him.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:170–172 · 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 45:6 (44:7 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 45:7 (44:8 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 45:8 (44:9 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 45:9 (44:10 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 45:10 (44:11 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 45:11 (44:12 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Heb 1:8 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon, Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (damaged spot in the digital text; restored from Ps 45:7; digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing)): (??)γάπησας → Ἠγάπησας; ὲν ἱματισμῷ → ἐν ἱματισμῷ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 38.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/38/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 38.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/38/4/).