Dialogue with Trypho 78.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:18

Φοβηθεὶς οὖν οὐκ ἐκβέβληκεν αὐτήν, ἀλλά, ἀπογραφῆς οὔσης ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ τότε πρώτης ἐπὶ Κυρηνίου, ἀνεληλύθει ἀπὸ Ναζαρέτ, ἔνθα ᾤκει, εἰς Βηθλεέμ, ὅθεν ἦν, ἀπογράψασθαι· ἀπὸ γὰρ τῆς κατοικούσης τὴν γῆν ἐκείνην φυλῆς Ἰούδα τὸ γένος ἦν. Καὶ αὐτὸς ἅμα τῇ Μαρίᾳ κελεύεται ἐξελθεῖν εἰς Αἴγυπτον καὶ εἶναι ἐκεῖ ἅμα τῷ παιδίῳ, ἄχρις ἂν αὐτοῖς πάλιν ἀποκαλυφθῇ ἐπανελθεῖν εἰς τὴν Ἰουδαίαν.

English · Claude translation

“Being afraid, then, he did not put her away; but when the first census was taking place in Judea under Quirinius, he went up from Nazareth, where he lived, to Bethlehem, where he was from, to be enrolled; for his race was of the tribe of Judah, which inhabited that land. And he was commanded to go into Egypt with Mary and to stay there with the child, until it should be revealed to them again to return to Judea.

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 1:24 · allusion, high confidence
Luke 2:1 · allusion, high confidence
Luke 2:2 · allusion, high confidence
Luke 2:4 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 2:13 · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (missing accent); digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong breathing); stray full stop in the digital text): εἰς Βηθλεέμ., ὅθεν → εἰς Βηθλεέμ, ὅθεν; φυλῆς Ἱούδα → φυλῆς Ἰούδα; ἁμα τῷ παιδίῳ → ἅμα τῷ παιδίῳ.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 78.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/78/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 78.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/78/4/).