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Church History 1.5.4

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted) reports Quirinius's arrival in Syria to assess property.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:21

τοῦτοις δʼ οὖν καὶ ὁ δεδηλωμένος ἐν ὀκτωκαιδεκάτῳ τῆς ἀρχαιολογίας συνᾴδων ταῦτα παρατίθεται κατὰ λέξιν “ Κυρίνιος δὲ τῶν εἰς τὴν βουλὴν συναγομένων ἀνὴρ, τάς τε ἄλλας ἀρχὰς ἐπιτετελεκὼς καὶ διὰ πασῶν ὁδεύσας ὕπατος γενέσθαι, τά τε ἄλλα ἀξιώματι μέγας, σὺν ὀλίγοις ἐπὶ Συρίας παρῆν, ὑπὸ Καίσαρος δικαιοδότης τοῦ ἔθνους άπεσταλμένος, καὶ τιμητὴς τῶν οὐσιῶν γενησόμενος. ”

English · Claude translation

In agreement with these things, the writer we have mentioned sets out the following word for word in the eighteenth book of his Antiquities: “Quirinius, a member of the senate, who had held the other offices and passed through them all to become consul, and a man of great dignity in other respects, arrived in Syria with a few men, sent by Caesar as judge of the nation and to make an assessment of property.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:21 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Josephus, Ant. 18.1 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Josephus, Ant. 18.1.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/5/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/5/4/).

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