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Church History 2.23.4

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): James the Lord's brother, called the Just, took charge of the church with the apostles.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:76–77

ἀκριβέστατά γε μὴν τὰ κατʼ αὐτὸν ὁ Ἡγήσιππος, ἐπὶ τῆς πρώτης τῶν ἀποστόλων γενόμενος διαδοχῆς, ἐν τῷ πέμπτῳ αὐτοῦ ὑπομνήματι τοῦτον λέγων ἱστορεῖ τὸν τρόπον “ δια- “ δὲ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν μετὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων ὁ “ἀδελφὸς τοῦ κυρίου Ἰάκωβος, ὁ ὀνομασθεὶς ὑπὸ “πάντων δίκαιος ἀπὸ τῶν τοῦ κυρίου χρόνων μέχρι “ καὶ ἡμῶν· ἐπεὶ πολλοὶ Ἰάκωβοι ἐκαλοῦντο.

English · Claude translation

But Hegesippus, who belonged to the first generation after the apostles, gives the most accurate account of him in the fifth book of his Memoirs, speaking thus: “The charge of the church passed, together with the apostles, to the brother of the Lord, James, who has been called the Just by all from the times of the Lord until our own; for many were called James.

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Source
Dindorf 4:76–77 · 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
Topics
Church office

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation (2.23.4–18) is Hegesippus, Memoirs, book 5 (lost except in Eusebius).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/4/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/4/).

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