Church History 2.23.19 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: James was so renowned that even thoughtful Jews thought the siege of Jerusalem was punishment for his murder.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:79

ταῦτα διὰ πλάτους συνῳδὰ τῷ Κλήμεντι καὶ ὁ Ἡγήσιππος. οὕτω δὲ ἄρα θαυμάσιός τις ἦν καὶ παρὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασιν ἐπὶ δικαιοσύνῃ βεβόητο ὁ Ἰάκωβος ὡς καὶ τοὺς Ἰουδαίων ἔμφρονας δοξάζειν ταύτην εἶναι τὴν αἰτίαν τῆς παρα- χρῆμα μετὰ τὸ μαρτύριον αὐτοῦ πολιορκίας τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ἣν διʼ οὐδὲν ἕτερον αὐτοῖς συμβῆναι ἢ διὰ τὸ κατʼ αὐτοῦ τολμηθὲν ἄγος.

English · Claude translation

Hegesippus relates these things at length in agreement with Clement. So wonderful a man was James, and so celebrated among all others for righteousness, that even the sensible among the Jews thought this was the cause of the siege of Jerusalem immediately after his martyrdom, which befell them for no other reason than the crime committed against him.

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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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/19/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/19/).