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Church History 2.5.3

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): Apion accused the Jews of refusing the emperor divine honours.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:52

καὶ “ἦν γὰρ τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων πρέσβεων εἷς Ἀπίων, ὃς “εἰς τοὺς Ἰουδαίους ἐβλασφήμησεν, ἄλλα τε “λέγων καὶ ὡς τῶν Καίσαρος τιμῶν περιορῷεν· πάντων γοῦν, ὅσοι τῇ Ῥωμαίων ἀρχῇ ὑποτελεῖς εἶεν, βωμοὺς τῷ Γαΐῳ καὶ ναοὺς ἱδρυμένων, τά τε ἄλλα “ ἐν πᾶσιν αὐτὸν ὥσπερ τοὺς θεοὺς δεχομένων, μόνους τούσδε ἄδοξον ἡγεῖσθαι ἀνδριᾶσι τιμᾶν καὶ “ ὄρκιον αὐτοῦ τὸ ὄνομα ποιεῖσθαι.

English · Claude translation

One of the envoys of the Alexandrians was Apion, who uttered many slanders against the Jews, saying among other things that they neglected the honours due to Caesar: for while all who were subject to Roman rule set up altars and temples to Gaius and received him in all other respects as they did the gods, these alone thought it shameful to honour him with statues and to swear by his name.

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Source
Dindorf 4:52 · 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
  • Josephus, Ant. 18.258 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Josephus, Ant. 18.257–258.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/5/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/5/3/).

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