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Church History 1.3.14

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

Summary: David's psalm calls Christ God and King, anointed with the oil of gladness.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:15

καὶ οὐ μόνος γε Ἠσαίας, ἀλλὰ καὶ Δαβὶδ εἰς τὸ αὐτοῦ πρόσωπον ἀναφωνεῖ λέγων “ ὁ θρόνος σου, θεὸς, εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος, ῥάβδος εὐθύτητος ἡ ῥάβδος τῆς βασιλείας σου. ἠγάπησας δικαιοσύνην καὶ ἐμίσησας ἀνομίαν· διὰ τοῦτο ἔχρισέ σε ὁ θεὸς ὁ θεός σου ἔλαιον ἀγαλλιάσεως παρὰ τοὺς μετόχους σου.” ἐν οἶς ὁ λόγος ἐν μὲν τῷ πρώτῳ στίχῳ θεὸν αὐτὸν ἐπιφημίζει, ἐν δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ σκήπτρῳ βασιλικῷ τιμᾷ.

English · Claude translation

And not Isaiah alone, but David too speaks to his person, saying: “Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a rod of uprightness is the rod of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.” In these words the passage in the first line calls him God, and in the second honours him with a royal sceptre.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:15 · 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)
Scripture
  • Ps 45:6–7 (44:7-Ps LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Ps 45:6–7 (44:7–8 LXX).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.3.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/3/14/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.3.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/3/14/).

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