Church History 1.7.11

Summary: Africanus (quoted): the Saviour's relatives report that Antipater, Herod's father, was carried off from Ascalon by Idumaean brigands.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:27

οὐδὲ μὴν ἀναπόδεικτον ἢ ἐσχε- “διασμένον ἐστὶ τοῦτο· τοῦ γοῦν σωτῆρος οἱ κατὰ “σάρκα συγγενεῖς, εἴτʼ οὖν φανητιῶντες εἴθʼ ἁπλῶς “ἐκδιδάσκοντες, πάντως δὲ ἀληθεύοντες, παρέδοσαν “καὶ ταῦτα, ὡς Ἰδουμαῖοι λῃσταὶ Ἀσκάλωνι πόλει τῆς “Παλαιστίνης ἐπελθόντες ἐξ εἰδωλείου Ἀπόλλωνος, ὃ “πρὸς τοῖς τείχεσιν ἵδρυτο, Ἀντίπατρον Ἡρώδου τινὸς “ἱεροδούλου παῖδα πρὸς τοῖς ἄλλοις σύλοις αἰχμάλω- “τον ἀπῆγον, τῷ δὲ λύτρα ὑπὲρ τοῦ υἱοῦ καταθέσθαι “μὴ δύνασθαι τὸν ἱερέα ὁ Ἀντίπατρος τοῖς τῶν Ἰδου- “μαίων ἔθεσιν ἐντραφεὶς ὕστερον Ὑρκανῷ φιλοῦται “τῷ τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἀρχιερεῖ.

English · Claude translation

Nor is this unproven or improvised. For the Saviour's relatives according to the flesh, whether to show off or simply to inform, but in any case speaking the truth, have handed down this too: that Idumaean brigands, attacking Ascalon, a city of Palestine, carried off from the temple of Apollo, which stood by the walls, among other spoils, Antipater, the son of a certain Herod, a temple slave; and since the priest could not pay a ransom for his son, Antipater, brought up in the customs of the Idumaeans, later became a friend of Hyrcanus the high priest of Judea.

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Dindorf 4:27 · 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.

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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, Letter to Aristides (Julius Africanus (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.7.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/7/11/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.7.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/7/11/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:27

English · Claude translation

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