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Church History 1.5.3

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

Summary: Josephus mentions the census and the revolt of Judas the Galilean, which Luke also records in Acts.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:20–21

ταύτης δὲ τῆς κατὰ Κυρίνιον ἀπογραφῆς καὶ ὁ τῶν παρʼ Ἐβραίοις ἐπισημότατος ἱστορικόν Θλαύιος Ἰώσηπος μνημονεύει, καὶ ἄλλην ἐπισυνάπτων ἱστορίαν περὶ τῆς τῶν Γαλιλαίων κατὰ τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἐπιφυείσης χρόνους αἱρέσεως, ἧς καὶ παρʼ ἡμῖν ὁ Λουκᾶς ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσι μνήμην ὧδἐπως λέγων πεποίηται “ μετὰ τοῦτον ἀνέστη Ἰούδας ὁ Γαλιλαῖος ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῆς ἀπογραφῆς, καὶ ἀπέστησε λαὸν ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ, κἀκεῖ- νος ἀπώλετο, καὶ πάντες ὅσοι ἐπείσθησαν αὐτῷ διεσκορπίσθησαν.”

English · Claude translation

This census under Quirinius is also mentioned by Flavius Josephus, the most renowned historian among the Hebrews, who adds another account, about the sect of the Galileans that sprang up at the same time, which our own Luke also mentions in the Acts, saying: “After him rose up Judas the Galilean in the days of the census, and drew away people after him; he too perished, and all who followed him were scattered.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:20–21 · 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
Extrabiblical texts
  • Josephus, Ant. 18.1–10 (Josephus (works)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Acts 5:37. The digital text has Θλαύιος for Φλαύιος.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/5/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/5/3/).

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