Sophia Scriptura

Church History 1.8.2

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

Summary: Warned by an angel, Jesus' parents fled with him to Egypt.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:29

φθάνει γε μὴν τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν εἰς Αἴγυπτον διακομισθεὶς ὁ παῖς, διʼ ἐπιφανείας ἀγγέλου τὸ μέλλον προμεμαθηκότων αὐτοῦ τῶν γονέων. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν καὶ ἡ ἱερὰ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου διδάσκει γραφή.

English · Claude translation

But the child, carried away to Egypt, escaped the plot, his parents having learned beforehand what was coming through the appearance of an angel. These things the sacred scripture of the Gospel also teaches.

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Source
Dindorf 4:29 · 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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Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusion to Matt 2:13–15.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/8/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/8/2/).

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