Church History 1.6.5

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

Summary: Before the exile the Jews had kings, and before the kings, judges.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:22

πρὸ μέν γε τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας αὐτῶν καὶ τῆς εἰς Βαβυλῶνα μεταναστάσεως ἐβασιλεύοντο, ἀπὸ Σαοὺλ πρώτου καὶ Δαβὶδ ἀρξάμενοι· πρὸ δὲ τῶν βασιλέων ἄρχοντες αὐτοὺς διεῖπον, οἱ προσαγορευόμενοι κρῖ ταὶ, ἄρξαντες καὶ αὐτοὶ μετὰ Μωυσέα καὶ τὸν τούτου διάδοχον Ἰησοῦν.

English · Claude translation

Before their captivity and deportation to Babylon they were ruled by kings, beginning with Saul first and David; and before the kings, rulers governed them who were called judges, and they too ruled after Moses and his successor Joshua.

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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; 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)

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.6.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/6/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.6.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/6/5/).

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