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Church History 2.23.16

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): James survived the fall and, as they stoned him, knelt and prayed for their forgiveness.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:78–79

“ ἀναβάντες οὖν κατέβαλον τὸν δίκαιον, καὶ ἔλεγον “ἀλλήλοις, λιθάσωμεν Ἰάκωβον τὸν δίκαιον. καὶ ἤρ- “ξαντο λιθάζειν αὐτὸν, ἐπεὶ καταβληθεὶς οὐκ ἀπέ- “ θανεν, ἀλλὰ στραφεὶς ἔθηκε τὰ γόνατα λέγων, “ καλῶ, κύριε θεὲ πάτερ, ἄφες αὐτοῖς· οὐ γὰρ οἴδασι “ τί ποιοῦσιν.

English · Claude translation

So they went up and threw down the Just one, and said to one another, ‘Let us stone James the Just.’ And they began to stone him, since he had not died from the fall; but he turned and knelt, saying, ‘I beseech you, Lord God Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.’

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Source
Dindorf 4:78–79 · 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
Topics
Martyrdom, Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Hegesippus; the prayer echoes Luke 23:34 (and Stephen, Acts 7:60). The digital text repeats θάνεν.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (repeated syllables in the digital text): ἀπέ- “ θανεν, θάνεν, → ἀπέ- “ θανεν,.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/16/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/16/).

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