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Church History 2.23.1

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

Summary: Foiled with Paul, the Jewish leaders turned against James, bishop of Jerusalem.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:76

Ἰουδαῖοί γε μὴν τοῦ Παύλου Καίσαρα ἐπικαλεσαμένου, ἐπί τε τὴν ῾Ρωμαίων πόλιν ὑπὸ Φήστου παραπεμφθέντος, τῆς ἐλπίοος καθʼ ἣν ἐξήρτυον αὐτῷ τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν ἀποπεσόντες, ἐπὶ Ἰάκωβον τὸν τοῦ κυρίου τρέπονται ἀδελφὸν, ὧ πρὸς τῶν ἀποστόλων ὁ τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς τῆς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐγκεχείριστο θρόνος. τοιαῦτα δὲ αὐτοῖς καὶ τὰ κατὰ τούτου τολμᾶται.

English · Claude translation

But the Jews, when Paul had appealed to Caesar and had been sent to the city of Rome by Festus, having failed in the hope with which they had prepared their plot against him, turned against James the brother of the Lord, to whom the throne of the episcopate in Jerusalem had been entrusted by the apostles. And these were the things they dared against him.

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Source
Dindorf 4:76 · 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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Topics
Church office, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusion to Acts 25:11–12.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/1/).

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