Church History 1.6.3

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

Summary: Antipater, captured as a boy by Idumaeans, later befriended Hyrcanus; his son was Herod.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:22

ὃς Ἀντίπατρος ὑπὸ Ἰδουμαίων λῃστῶν παιδίον αἰχμαλωτισθεὶς σὺν ἐκείνοις ἦν, διὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι τὸν πατέρα πένητα ὄντα λύτρα κάτα θέσθαι ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ. ἐντραφεὶς δὲ τοῖς ἐκείνων ἤθεʼ σιν ὕστερον Ὑρκανῷ τῷ Ἰουδαίων ἀρχιερεῖ φιλοῦτ τούτῳ παῖς γίνεται ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἡρώδη

English · Claude translation

This Antipater, taken captive as a child by Idumaean brigands, stayed with them because his father, being poor, could not pay a ransom for him. Brought up in their customs, he later became a friend of Hyrcanus the high priest of the Jews. His son was the Herod of our Saviour's time.

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Source

Dindorf 4:22 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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

Julius Africanus (Julius Africanus (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Report from Julius Africanus. The digital text is damaged at the end of this section (φιλοῦτ, Ἡρώδη).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/6/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/6/3/).

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