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Church History 1.7.16

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

Summary: Africanus (quoted) summarizes: Joseph was Jacob's son by nature and Heli's by law.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:28

καὶ ἐπὶ τέλει δὲ τῆς αὐτῆς ἐπιστολῆς προστίθησι ταῦτα· Ματθὰν ὁ ἀπὸ Σολομῶνος ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἰακώβ. “ Ματθὰν ἀποθανόντος Μελχὶ ὁ ἀπὸ Νάθαν ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς γυ- “ναικὸς ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἠλὶ. ὁμομήτριοι ἄρα ἀδελφοὶ “Ἡλὶ καὶ Ἰακώβ. Ἠλὶ ἀτέκνου ἀποθανόντος ὁ Ἰακὼβ “ἀνέστησεν αὐτῷ σπέρμα, γεννήσας τὸν Ἰωσὴφ, κατὰ “ φύσιν μὲν ἑαυτῷ, κατὰ νόμον δὲ τῷ Ἡλί. οὕτως “ ἀμφοτέρων υἱὸς ἦν ὁ Ἰωσήφ.’’ τοσαῦτα ὁ ᾿Αφρικανός.

English · Claude translation

And at the end of the same letter he adds this: “Matthan, descended from Solomon, begot Jacob. When Matthan died, Melchi, descended from Nathan, begot Heli by the same woman. So Heli and Jacob were brothers by the same mother. When Heli died childless, Jacob raised up seed for him, begetting Joseph, by nature his own son, but by law Heli's. Thus Joseph was the son of both.” So much from Africanus.

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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; 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Julius Africanus, Letter to Aristides (Julius Africanus (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
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Marriage

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  • Quotation from Julius Africanus, Letter to Aristides.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.7.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/7/16/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.7.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/7/16/).

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