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Church History 2.6.3

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

Summary: Philo's On the Virtues and Josephus both show the Jews' calamities beginning under Pilate.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:53

μυρία μὲν οὖν ἄλλα δεινὰ καὶ πέρα πάσης διηγήσεως ὁ αὐτὸς κατὰ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν συμβεβηκότα Ἰουδαίοις ἐπὶ τοῦ δηλουμένου ἐν δευτέρῳ συγγράμματι ᾧ ἐπέγραψε “περὶ ἀρετῶν” ἱστορεῖ. συνᾴδει δʼ αὐτῷ καὶ ὁ Ἰώσηπος, ὁμοίως ἀπὸ τῶν Πιλάτου χρόνων καὶ τῶν κατὰ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν τετολμημένων τὰς κατὰ παντὸς τοῦ ἔθνους ἐνάρξασθαι σημαίνων συμφοράς.

English · Claude translation

Countless other terrible things beyond all description the same writer relates as having befallen the Jews in Alexandria under the emperor mentioned, in a second work which he entitled On the Virtues. Josephus agrees with him, likewise indicating that the calamities of the whole nation began from the times of Pilate and the crimes committed against our Saviour.

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Source
Dindorf 4:53 · 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, Flacc. (Philo of Alexandria (works)) · allusion, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • “On the Virtues” may be the title of the group of books including Against Flaccus and the Embassy.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/6/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/6/3/).

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