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Church History 2.6.4

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): Pilate brought Caesar's images into Jerusalem by night, causing a great uproar.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:53–54

ἄκουε δʼ οὖν οἷα καὶ οὗτος ἐν δευτέρῳ τοῦ Ἰουδαϊκοῦ πολέμου αὐταῖς συλλαβαῖς δηλοῖ λέγων πεμφθεὶς δὲ εἰς Ἰουδαίαν ἐπί- “τροπος ὑπὸ Τιβερίου Πιλᾶτος νύκτωρ κεκαλυμμένας “ εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα παρεισκομίζει τὰς Καίσαρος εἰκόνας· “ σημαῖαι καλοῦνται. τοῦτο μεθʼ ἡμέραν μεγίστην “ταραχὴν ἤγειρε τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις. οἱ γὰρ ἐγγὺς πρὸς “ τὴν ὄψιν ἐξεπλάγησαν, ὡς πεπατημένων αὐτοῖς τῶν νόμων. οὐδὲν γὰρ ἀξιοῦσιν ἐν τῇ πόλει δείκηλον “τίθεσθαι.’’

English · Claude translation

Hear, then, what he too shows in the second book of the Jewish War, saying in these very words: “Pilate, sent to Judea as procurator by Tiberius, brought into Jerusalem by night, veiled, the images of Caesar, which are called standards. This, when day came, stirred up the greatest disturbance among the Jews; for those near at hand were astounded at the sight, as though their laws had been trampled on; for they do not allow any image to be set up in the city.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:53–54 · 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, J.W. 2.169–170 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Josephus, J.W. 2.169–170.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/6/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/6/4/).

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