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Church History 2.19.1

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

Summary: Under Claudius a Passover riot in Jerusalem killed thirty thousand Jews in a crush at the temple gates.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:72

ἔτι δὲ Κλαυδίου τὰ τῆς βασιλείας διέποντος, κατὰ τὴν τοῦ πάσχα ἑορτὴν τοσαύτην ἐπὶ τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων στάσιν καὶ ταραχὴν ἐγγενέσθαι συνέβη ὡς μόνων τῶν περὶ τὰς ἐξόδους τοῦ ἱεροῦ βίᾳ συνωθουμένων τρεῖς μυριάδας Ἰουδαίων ἀποθανεῖν πρὸς ἀλλήλων καταπατηθέντων, γενέσθαι τε τὴν ἑορτὴν πένθος μὲν ὅλῳ τῷ ἔθνει, θρῆνον δὲ καθʼ ἑκάστην οἰκίαν. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν κατὰ λέξιν ὁ Ἰώσηπος.

English · Claude translation

While Claudius was still administering the empire, it happened that at the feast of the Passover so great a riot and disturbance arose in Jerusalem that of those alone who were forcibly crowded together at the exits of the temple, thirty thousand Jews died, trampled by one another, and the feast became mourning for the whole nation and lamentation in every house. This too Josephus relates almost word for word.

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Source
Dindorf 4:72 · 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
  • Josephus, J.W. 2.224–227 (Josephus (works)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The source is Josephus, J.W. 2.224–227 (compare Ant. 20.105–112, which gives twenty thousand).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/19/1/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/19/1/).

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