Dialogue with Trypho 78.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 2:20–22

Καὶ ὁ Ἡρώδης, μὴ ἐπανελθόντων πρὸς αὐτὸν τῶν ἀπὸ Ἀρραβίας μάγων, ὡς ἠξίωσεν αὐτοὺς ποιῆσαι, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὰ κελευσθέντα αὐτοῖς διʼ ἄλλης ὁδοῦ εἰς τὴν χώραν αὐτῶν ἀπαλλαγέντων, καὶ τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ ἅμα τῇ Μαρίᾳ καὶ τῷ παιδίῳ, ὡς καὶ αὐτοῖς ἀποκεκάλυπτο, ἤδη ἐξελθόντων εἰς Αἴγυπτον, οὐ γινώσκων τὸν παῖδα, ὃν ἐληλύθεισαν προσκυνῆσαι οἱ μάγοι, πάντας ἁπλῶς τοὺς παῖδας τοὺς ἐν Βηθλεὲμ ἐκέλευσεν ἀναιρεθῆναι.

English · Claude translation

“And Herod, when the Magi from Arabia did not return to him as he had asked them to do, but went away to their own country by another road according to what they had been commanded, and when Joseph with Mary and the child had already gone into Egypt, as had been revealed to them, not knowing the child whom the Magi had come to worship, ordered all the children in Bethlehem without exception to be killed.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:20–22 · 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 2:12 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 2:14 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 2:16 · 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 accent)): τοῦ Ἰωσήφ ἅμα → τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ ἅμα; ὅν ἐληλύθεισαν → ὃν ἐληλύθεισαν; παντας ἁπλῶς → πάντας ἁπλῶς.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 78.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/78/7/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 78.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/78/7/).