Dialogue with Trypho 78.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:18

Καὶ Ἰωσὴφ δέ, ὁ τὴν Μαρίαν μεμνηστευμένος, βουληθεὶς πρότερον ἐκβαλεῖν τὴν μνηστὴν αὐτῷ Μαριάμ, νομίζων ἐγκυμονεῖν αὐτὴν ἀπὸ συνουσίας ἀνδρός, τουτέστιν ἀπὸ πορνείας, διʼ ὁράματος κεκέλευστο μὴ ἐκβαλεῖν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, εἰπόντος αὐτῷ τοῦ φανέντος ἀγγέλου ὅτι ἐκ πνεύματος ἁγίου ὃ ἔχει κατὰ γαστρός ἐστι.

English · Claude translation

“And Joseph, who was betrothed to Mary, at first wished to put away his betrothed Mary, thinking that she was with child by intercourse with a man, that is, by fornication; but he was commanded in a vision not to put away his wife, the angel who appeared telling him that what she had in her womb was of the Holy Spirit.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:18 · 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 1:18 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 1:19 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 1:20 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology, Marriage

Notes

Translation notes

“Fornication” (πορνεία): used here of intercourse during betrothal.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): ὅ ἔχει κατὰ γαστρός → ὃ ἔχει κατὰ γαστρός.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 78.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/78/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 78.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/78/3/).