Church History 1.11.4

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): some Jews thought God destroyed Herod's army to avenge John the Baptist.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:36

καὶ ταῦτά γε αὐτῷ ἐν ὀκτωκαιδεκάτῳ τῆς ἀρχαιολογίας δεδήλωται, ἔνθα συλλαβαῖς αὐταῖς περὶ τοῦ ‘Ιωάννου ταῦτα γράφει ‘τισὶ δὲ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐδόκει ὀλω- “λέναι τὸν Ἡρώδου στρατὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ μάλα “δικαίως τιννυμἐνου κατὰ ποινὴν Ἰωάννου τοῦ κα- “ λουμένου βαπτιστοῦ.

English · Claude translation

These things he has shown in the eighteenth book of the Antiquities, where he writes these very words about John: “But to some of the Jews it seemed that Herod's army had been destroyed by God, who most justly exacted punishment for John, called the Baptist.

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Source

Dindorf 4:36 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Josephus, Ant. 18.116 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation (1.11.4–6) is Josephus, Ant. 18.116–119.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/11/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/11/4/).

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