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Church History 2.21.3

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

Summary: Acts mentions the same Egyptian when the tribune questions Paul.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:74

ταῦτα ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ τῶν ἱστοριῶν ὁ Ἰώσηπος· ἐπιστῆσαι δὲ ἄξιον τοῖς ἐνταῦθα κατὰ τὸν Αἰγύπτιον δεδηλωμένοις καὶ τοῖς ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσι τῶν ἀποστόλων. ἔνθα τὰ κατὰ Φήλικα πρὸς τοῦ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις χιλιάρχου εἴρηται τῷ Παύλῳ, ὁπηνίκα κατεστασίαζεν αὐτοῦ τὸ τῶν Ἰουδαίων πλῆθος· οὐκ ἄρα σὺ εἶ ὁ Αἰγύπτιος ὁ πρὸ τούτων τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀναστατώσας καὶ ἐξαγαγὼν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τοὺς τετρα- κισχιλίους ἄνδρας τῶν σικαρίων;’’ ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν κατὰ Φήλικα τοιαῦτα.

English · Claude translation

This Josephus relates in the second book of his Histories. It is worth comparing what is here shown about the Egyptian with the account in the Acts of the Apostles, where, in the time of Felix, it was said to Paul by the tribune in Jerusalem, when the multitude of the Jews raised a riot against him: “Are you not then the Egyptian who before these days stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the sicarii out into the desert?” Such were the events under Felix.

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Source
Dindorf 4:74 · 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

  • The quotation is Acts 21:38. Acts gives four thousand, Josephus thirty thousand.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.21.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/21/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.21.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/21/3/).

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