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Church History 1.10.2

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: Jesus' ministry fell between the high priesthoods of Annas and Caiaphas, less than four years.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:34

φησὶ δὲ αὐτὸν ἡ θεία γραφὴ τὸν πάντα τῆς διδασκαλίας διατελέσαι χρόνον ἐπὶ ἀρχιερέως Ἂννα καὶ Καϊάφα, δηλοῦσα ὅτι δὴ ἐν τοῖς μεταξὺ τῆς τούτων ἔτεσι λειτουργίας ὁ πᾶς τῆς διδασκαλίας αὐτῷ συνεπεράνθη χρόνος· ἀρξαμένου μὲν κατὰ τὴν τοῦ Ἂννα ἀρχιερωσύνην, μέχρι δὲ τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ Καϊάφα παραμείναντος, οὐδʼ ὅλος ὁ μεταξυ τετραέτης παρίσταται χρόνος.

English · Claude translation

Divine Scripture says that he completed the whole time of his teaching under the high priests Annas and Caiaphas, showing that the whole time of his teaching was completed in the years between their ministries. He began during the high priesthood of Annas and continued until the tenure of Caiaphas; so the whole interval does not amount to four full years.

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Source
Dindorf 4:34 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. 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), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusion to Luke 3:2.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/10/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/10/2/).

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