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Church History 2.23.17

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): a Rechabite priest cried out that James was praying for them.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:79

οὕτω δὲ καταλιθοβολούντων αὐτὸν “ εἷς τῶν ἱερέων τῶν υἱόν Ῥηχὰβ υἱοῦ Ῥαχαβεὶμ τῶν “ μαρτυρουμένων ὑπὸ Ἱερεμίου τοῦ προφήτου ἔκραζε “ λέγων, παύσασθε· τέ ποιεῖτε; εὔχεται ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν “ ὁ δίκαιος.

English · Claude translation

While they were stoning him in this way, one of the priests of the sons of Rechab the son of Rechabim, to whom Jeremiah the prophet bore witness, cried out, saying, ‘Stop! What are you doing? The Just one is praying for you.’

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Source
Dindorf 4:79 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Hegesippus. On the Rechabites see Jer 35 (42 LXX).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/17/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/17/).

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