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Church History 2.23.11

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): they asked James to speak from the pinnacle of the temple to the Passover crowds.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:78

πεῖσον οὖν σὺ τὸν ὄχλον περὶ Ἰησοῦ μὴ “πλανᾶσθαι. καὶ γὰρ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς καὶ πάντες πειθό “μεθά σοι. στῆθι οὖν ἐπὶ τὸ πτερύγιον τοῦ ἱεροῦ, “ἵνα ἄνωθεν ᾖς ἐπιφανὴς καὶ ᾖ εὐάκουστά σου τὰ “ῥήματα παντὶ τῷ λαῷ. διὰ γὰρ τὸ πάσχα συνελη- “λύθασι πᾶσαι αἱ φυλαὶ μετὰ καὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν.

English · Claude translation

So persuade the crowd not to go astray about Jesus; for all the people and all of us obey you. Stand, then, on the pinnacle of the temple, so that from above you may be conspicuous and your words may be easily heard by all the people. For because of the Passover all the tribes have come together, with the Gentiles too.’

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Source
Dindorf 4:78 · 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
  • Hegesippus, Memoirs 5 (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Hegesippus.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/11/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/11/).

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