Dialogue with Trypho 86.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Aaron's rod, the rod of Jesse, the tree of Psalm 1, the palm.

Greek text · Archambault 2:64

Ῥάβδος ἡ Ἀαρὼν βλαστὸν κομίσασα ἀρχιερέα αὐτὸν ἀπέδειξε. Ῥάβδον ἐκ ῥίζης Ἰεσσαὶ γενήσεσθαι τὸν Χριστὸν Ἡσαΐας προεφήτευσε. Καὶ Δαυῒδ ὡς τὸ ξύλον τὸ πεφυτευμένον παρὰ τὰς διεξόδους τῶν ὑδάτων, ὃ τὸν καρπὸν αὐτοῦ δώσειν ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ φύλλον αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἀπορρυήσεσθαι, φησὶν εἶναι τὸν δίκαιον. Καὶ ὡς φοῖνιξ ἀνθήσειν ὁ δίκαιος εἴρηται.

English · Claude translation

“The rod of Aaron, bearing a bud, showed him to be high priest. Isaiah prophesied that Christ would come as a rod from the root of Jesse. And David says that the righteous one is like the tree planted by the streams of water, which will give its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not fall. And it is said that the righteous one shall flourish like a palm tree.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:64 · 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

Num 17:8 · allusion, high confidence
Isa 11:1 · allusion, high confidence
Ps 1:3 · allusion, high confidence
Ps 92:12 (91:13 LXX) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 86.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/86/4/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 86.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/86/4/).