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Church History 2.23.15

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): they cried that James had gone astray, fulfilling Isaiah's words about removing the righteous man.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:78

καὶ ἔκραξαν “λέγοντες, ὢ ὢ, καὶ ὁ δίκαιος ἐπλανήθη. καὶ ἐπλή- “ρωσαν τὴν γραφὴν τὴν ἐν τῷ Ἡσαΐᾳ γεγραμμένην· “ἄρωμεν τὸν δίκαιον, ὅτι δύσχρηστος ἡμῖν ἐστι· τοί- “νυν τὰ γεννήματα τῶν ἔργων αὐτῶν φάγονται.

English · Claude translation

And they cried out, saying, ‘Oh, oh, even the Just one has gone astray!’ And they fulfilled the scripture written in Isaiah: ‘Let us take away the righteous man, for he is troublesome to us; therefore they shall eat the fruit of their works.’

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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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Hegesippus, Memoirs 5 (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
  • Wis 2:12 (Wisdom of Solomon) · echo, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Hegesippus, citing Isa 3:10 (LXX, with Wis 2:12).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/15/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/15/).

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