Dialogue with Trypho 78.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Herod learned from the elders that the king would be born in Bethlehem (Mic 5:2).

Greek text · Archambault 2:16

Καὶ γὰρ οὗτος ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἡρώδης, μαθὼν παρὰ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων τοῦ λαοῦ ὑμῶν, τότε ἐλθόντων πρὸς αὐτὸν τῶν ἀπὸ Ἀρραβίας μάγων, καὶ εἰπόντων ἐξ ἀστέρος τοῦ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ φανέντος ἐγνωκέναι ὅτι βασιλεὺς γεγέννηται ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ὑμῶν, καὶ ἤλθομεν προσκυνῆσαι αὐτόν, καὶ ἐν Βηθλεὲμ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων εἰπόντων, ὅτι γέγραπται ἐν τῷ προφήτῃ οὕτως· Καὶ σὺ Βηθλεέμ, γῆ Ἰούδα, οὐδαμῶς ἐλαχίστη εἶ ἐν τοῖς ἡγεμόσιν Ἰούδα· ἐκ σοῦ γὰρ ἐξελεύσεται ἡγούμενος, ὅστις ποιμανεῖ τὸν λαόν μου.

English · Claude translation

“For this King Herod learned from the elders of your people, when the Magi from Arabia came to him and said that they knew from a star that appeared in the heaven that a king had been born in your country, and ‘we have come to worship him,’ and when the elders said it was in Bethlehem, because it is written in the prophet thus: ‘And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a leader who shall shepherd my people.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:16 · 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

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.

Scripture

Matt 2:2 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 2:5 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 2:6 · quotation, high confidence
Mic 5:2 (5:1 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 78.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/78/1/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 78.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/78/1/).