Church History 1.6.11

Summary: Daniel's seventy weeks foretold the end of the Jewish anointing, fulfilled at Christ's coming.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:24

καὶ ταῦτα δʼ ἡμῖν εἰρήσθω εἰς ἑτέραν ἀπόδειξιν προφητείας κατὰ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ πεπερασμένης. σαφέστατα γοῦν ἐν τῷ Δανιὴλ ἑβδομάδων τινῶν ἀριθμὸν ὀνομαστὶ ἴως Χριστοῦ ἡγουμένου περιλαβὼν ὁ λόγος, περὶ ὧν ἐν ἑτέροις διειλήφαμεν, μετὰ τὸ τούτων συμπέρασμα ἐξολοθρευθήσεσθαι τὸ παρὰ Ἰουδαίοις χρῖσμα προφητεύει. καὶ τοῦτο δὲ σαφῶς κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ γενέσεως ἀποδείκνυται συμπεπληρωμένον. ταῦτα δʼ ἡμῖν ἀναγκαίως εἰς παράστασιν τῆς τῶν χρόνων ἀληθείας προτετηρήσθω.

English · Claude translation

Let these things be said by us as further proof of a prophecy fulfilled at the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ. For very clearly in Daniel the word, having comprised by name a number of certain weeks until Christ the leader (about which we have treated elsewhere), prophesies that after their completion the anointing among the Jews would be destroyed. And this is clearly shown to have been fulfilled at the time of the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ. These things had necessarily to be noted by us beforehand to establish the truth of the chronology.

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Source

Dindorf 4:24 · 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

Dan 9:25–26 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.6.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/6/11/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.6.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/6/11/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:24

English · Claude translation

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