Church History 1.5.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:20

ἦν δὴ οὖν τοῦτο δεύτερον καὶ τεσσαρακοστὸν ἔτος τῆς Αὐγούστου βασιλείας, Αἰγύπτου δʼ ὑποταγῆς καὶ τελευτῆς Ἀντωνίου καὶ Κλεοπάτρας,, εἰς ἣν ὑστάτην ἡ κατʼ Αἴγυπτον τῶν Πτολεμαίων κατέληξε δυναστεία, ὄγδοον ἔτος καὶ εἰκοστὸν, ὁπηωίκα ὁ σωτὴρ ἡμῶν καὶ κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ἐπὶ τῆς τότε ἀπογραφῆς πρώτης, ἡγεμονεύοντος Κυρινίου τῆς Συρίας, ἀκολούθως ταῖς περὶ αὐτοῦ προφητείαις, ἐν Βηθλεὲμ γεννᾶται τῆς Ἰουδαίας.

English · Claude translation

It was then the forty-second year of the reign of Augustus, and the twenty-eighth year from the subjection of Egypt and the death of Antony and Cleopatra, with whom the dynasty of the Ptolemies in Egypt came to its end, when our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ, at the time of the first census, while Quirinius was governor of Syria, was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in accordance with the prophecies concerning him.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:20 · 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

Luke 2:2 · allusion, high confidence
Mic 5:2 (5:1 LXX) · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

Allusion to Luke 2:1–7 and Mic 5:2 (5:1 LXX). Eusebius's dating is his own; modern scholars place the birth a few years earlier and debate the date of the census.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/5/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/5/2/).