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Church History 1.2.9

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

Summary: Moses calls the Word a second Lord at Sodom, and Jacob saw him as God face to face.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:6

τοῦτον δεύτερον μετὰ τὸν πατέρα κύριον σαφέστατα Μωυσῆς ἀναγορεύει λέγων “ ἔβρεξε κύριος ἐπὶ Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα θεῖον καὶ πῦρ παρὰ κυρίου.” τοῦτον καὶ τῷ Ἰακὼβ αὖθις ἐν ἀνδρὸς φανέντα σχήματι θεὸν ἡ θεία προσαγορεύει γραφὴ, φάσκοντα τῷ Ἰακὼβ “ οὺκέτι κληθήσεται τὸ ὂνομά σου Ἰακὼβ ἀλλʼ Ἰσραὴλ ἔσται τὸ ὄνομά σου, ὅτι ἐνίσχυσας μετὰ θεοῦ. ὅτε καὶ ἐκάλεσεν Ἰακὼβ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου εἶδος θεοῦ, λέγων “ εἶδον γὰρ τὸν θεὸν πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον, καὶ ἐσώθη ἡ ψυχή μου.’’

English · Claude translation

Moses very clearly names him a second Lord after the Father when he says, “The Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulphur and fire from the Lord.” Him again, when he appeared to Jacob in the form of a man, divine Scripture calls God, as he says to Jacob, “No longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name, for you have prevailed with God.” Then too Jacob called the name of that place “Form of God,” saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:6 · 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.
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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

  • The quotations are Gen 19:24, Gen 32:28, and Gen 32:30 (LXX “Form of God” for Peniel).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/9/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/9/).

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