First Apology 41 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Rauschen, 74

Καὶ πάλιν δʼ ἄλλης προφητείας μηνύον τὸ προφητικὸν πνεῦμα διʼ αὐτοῦ Δαυΐδ, ὅτι μετὰ τὸ σταυρωθῆναι βασιλεύσει ὁ Χριστός, οὕτως εἶπεν· „Ἄισατε τῷ κυρίῳ πᾶσα ἡ γῆ, καὶ ἀναγγείλατε ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας τὸ σωτήριον αὐτοῦ· ὅτι μέγας κύριος καὶ αἰνετὸς σφόδρα, φοβερὸς ὑπὲρ πάντας τοὺς θεούς· ὅτι πάντες οἱ θεοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν εἴδωλα δαιμονίων εἰσίν, ὁ δὲ θεὸς τοὺς οὐρανοὺς ἐποίησε. Δόξα καὶ αἶνος κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἰσχὺς καὶ καύχημα ἐν τόπῳ ἁγιάσματος αὐτοῦ· δότε τῷ κυρίῳ, τῷ πατρὶ τῶν αἰώνων, δόξαν. Λάβετε χάριν καὶ εἰσέλθετε κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ καὶ προσκυνήσατε ἐν αὐλαῖς ἁγίαις αὐτοῦ· φοβηθήτω ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἡ γῆ καὶ κατορθωθήτω καὶ μὴ σαλευθήτω. Εὐφρανθήτωσαν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν· ὁ κύριος ἐβασίλευσεν“ ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου.

English · Claude translation

And again, indicating by another prophecy through the same David that after being crucified Christ would reign, the prophetic Spirit spoke thus: “Sing to the Lord, all the earth, and proclaim his salvation from day to day; for the Lord is great and greatly to be praised, to be feared above all the gods; for all the gods of the nations are images of demons, but God made the heavens. Glory and praise are before his face, and strength and boasting in the place of his holiness. Give glory to the Lord, the Father of the ages. Receive grace, and enter before his face, and worship in his holy courts. Let all the earth fear before his face, and be established and not be shaken. Let them rejoice among the nations: the Lord has reigned from the tree.”

About this passage

Source

Rauschen, 74 · Gerhard Rauschen, ed., S. Iustini Apologiae duae, Florilegium Patristicum 2 (Bonn: Hanstein, 1911), 8–114 · Greek text: G. Rauschen, S. Iustini Apologiae duae (Florilegium Patristicum 2, 1911), 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 Rauschen (Florilegium Patristicum 2, 1911); made independently of existing English translations.

Scripture

1 Chr 16:23 · quotation, high confidence
1 Chr 16:25 · quotation, high confidence
1 Chr 16:26 · quotation, high confidence
1 Chr 16:27 · quotation, medium confidence
1 Chr 16:28 · quotation, medium confidence
1 Chr 16:29 · quotation, high confidence
1 Chr 16:30 · quotation, high confidence
1 Chr 16:31 · quotation, high confidence
Ps 96:10 (95:10 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

“The Lord has reigned from the tree” (ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου): the words “from the tree” are not in the Hebrew or in most manuscripts of the Septuagint of Ps 96:10. Justin (Dial. 73) accuses the Jews of removing them; they were probably a Christian addition. The words were widely quoted in the early church.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (damaged spot in the digital text; restored from the sense; digitization slip against Rauschen's printed text (missing accent); digitization slip against Rauschen's printed text (wrong letter); digitization slip against Rauschen's printed text (wrong vowel)): ὁ Χριστ(??)ς → ὁ Χριστός; αὐτσῦ → αὐτοῦ; δόξην → δόξαν; ἀπο τοῦ ξύλου → ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου.

Cite this passage

Justin, 1 Apol. 41 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-1-apology/41/).

Plain text

Justin, 1 Apol. 41 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-1-apology/41/).