Church History 1.3.18

Summary: Christ was not anointed bodily nor of a priestly tribe, but existed from God before the world and is an eternal priest.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:16

ὅθεν οὐδὲ σωματικῶς παρὰ Ἰουδαίοις χρισθέντα αὐτὸν ἡ ἱστορία παραδίδωσιν, ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ ἐκ φυλῆς τῶν ἱερωμένων γενόμενον, ἐξ αὐτοῦ δὲ τοῦ θεοῦ πρὸ ἑωσφόρου μὲν, τουτέστι πρὸ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου συστάσεως οὐσιωμένον, ἀθάνατον δὲ καὶ ἀγήρω τὴν ἱερωσύνην εἰς τὸν ἄπειρον αἰῶνα διακατέχοντα.

English · Claude translation

Hence history does not record that he was anointed bodily among the Jews, nor that he came from the tribe of the priests, but that he was given being from God himself before the morning star, that is, before the foundation of the world, and that he holds his priesthood immortal and ageless for unending ages.

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Source

Dindorf 4:16 · 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

Heb 7:14 · echo, medium confidence
Heb 7:24 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.3.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/3/18/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.3.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/3/18/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:16

English · Claude translation

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