Dialogue with Trypho 77.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:14–16

Ἅμα γὰρ τῷ γεννηθῆναι αὐτὸν μάγοι ἀπὸ Ἀρραβίας παραγενόμενοι προσεκύνησαν αὐτῷ, πρότερον ἐλθόντες πρὸς Ἡρώδην τὸν ἐν τῇ γῇ ὑμῶν τότε βασιλεύοντα, ὃν ὁ λόγος καλεῖ βασιλέα Ἀσσυρίων διὰ τὴν ἄθεον καὶ ἄνομον αὐτοῦ γνώμην. Ἐπίστασθε γὰρ τοιαῦτα, ἔφην, ἐν παραβολαῖς καὶ ὁμοιώσεσι πολλάκις λαλοῦν τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα· οἷον πεποίηκε καὶ πρὸς τὸν λαὸν ἅπαντα τὸν ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις, πολλάκις φῆσαν πρὸς αὐτούς· Ὁ πατήρ σου Ἀμορραῖος καὶ ἡ μήτηρ σου Χετταία.

English · Claude translation

“For as soon as he was born, Magi came from Arabia and worshiped him, having first come to Herod, who was then king in your land, whom the word calls king of Assyria because of his godless and lawless mind. For you know, I said, that the Holy Spirit often speaks such things in parables and similitudes; as it did also to the whole people in Jerusalem, often saying to them: ‘Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:14–16 · 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

Matt 2:1 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 2:11 · allusion, high confidence
Ezek 16:3 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

Justin places the Magi's origin in Arabia.

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)): ὅν ὁ λόγος καλεῖ → ὃν ὁ λόγος καλεῖ; ὲν παραβολαῖς → ἐν παραβολαῖς.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 77.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/77/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 77.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/77/4/).