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Church History 2.5.6

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

Summary: Eusebius will cite from Philo's Embassy only what shows the Jews' calamities after the crucifixion.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:52

καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Φίλων ἐν ἡ συνέγραψε πρεσβείᾳ τὰ κατὰ μέρος ἀκριβῶς τῶν τότε πραχθέντων αὐτῷ δηλοῖ, ὦν τὰ πλεῖστα παρεὶς ἐκεῖνα μόνα παραθήσομαι, διʼ ὧν τοῖς ἐντυγχάνουσι προφανὴς γενήσεται δήλωσις τῶν ἅμα τε καὶ οὐκ εἰς μακρὸν τῶν κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τετολμημένων ἕνεκεν Ἰουδαίοις συμβεβηκότων.

English · Claude translation

Philo himself, in the Embassy which he wrote, shows in detail what was done at that time; I shall pass over most of it and set down only those things from which the readers will get a clear indication of what befell the Jews, at once and not long afterwards, on account of their crimes against Christ.

About this passage

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
  • Philo, Legat. (Philo of Alexandria (works)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Eusebius interprets these calamities as divine punishment; this is his theological reading of the history.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/5/6/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/5/6/).

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