Church History 1.7.14 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:28

ὀλίγοι δὴ τῶν ἐπιμελῶν ἰδιωτικὰς “ ἑαυτοῖς ἀπογραφὰς, ἢ μνημονεύσαντες τῶν ὀνομάτων, “ἢ ἄλλως ἔχοντες ἐξ ἀντʼ ἀντιγράφων, ἐναβρύνονται, σωζομένης τῇ μνήμῃ τῆς εὐγενείας· ὣν ἐτύγχανον οἶ “ προειρημένοι δεσπόσυνοι καλούμενοι, διὰ τὴν πρὸς “ τὸ σωτήριον γένος συνάφειαν, ἀπό τε Ναζάρων καὶ Κωχαβὰ κωμῶν Ἰουδαϊκῶν τῇ λοιπῇ γῇ “σαντες, καὶ τὴν προκειμένην γενεαλογίαν ** ἐκ τε τῆς “ βίβλου τῶν ἡμερῶν εἰς ὅσον ἐξικνοῦντο εξηγησά- “ μένοι.

English · Claude translation

A few careful people, having private records of their own, either by remembering the names or by having them in some other way from copies, pride themselves on preserving the memory of their noble birth. Among these happened to be those already mentioned, called desposyni because of their connection with the Saviour's family, who from Nazareth and Cochaba, villages of Judea, [spread] over the rest of the land and explained the aforesaid genealogy from the book of days as far as they could.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:28 · 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, Letter to Aristides (Julius Africanus (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Julius Africanus, Letter to Aristides. Desposyni (δεσπόσυνοι) means “those belonging to the Master.” The digital text is damaged (a word ending -σαντες is lost, marked **); “spread” is supplied from the sense. “Book of days” may mean the Chronicles or family registers.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.7.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/7/14/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.7.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/7/14/).