Church History 1.10.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: At that time Roman governors changed the high priest yearly instead of by hereditary succession.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:34

τῶν γάρ τοι κατὰ τὸν νόμον ἤδη πως καθῃρημένων ἐξ ἐκείνου θεσμῶν, λέλυτο μὲν, ᾦ διὰ βίου καὶ ἐκ προγόνων διαδοχῆς τὰ τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ θεραπείας προσήκοντα ἦν, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν Ῥωμαϊκῶν ἡγεμόνων ἄλλοτʼ ἄλλοι τὴν ἀρχιερωσύνην ἐπιτρεπόμενοι οὐ πλέον ἔτους ἑνὸς ἐπὶ ταύτης διετέλουν.

English · Claude translation

For since the ordinances of the law had by then in some way been done away with, the rule was dissolved by which the offices of the service of God belonged to a man for life and by ancestral succession; and different men were entrusted with the high priesthood by the Roman governors at different times, and did not continue in it for more than one year.

About this passage

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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/10/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/10/3/).