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Church History 2.6.8

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

Summary: Josephus shows constant revolts until Vespasian's siege, which Eusebius sees as divine punishment for the crime against Christ.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:54–55

ἐπὶ τούτοις μυρίας ἄλλας ἐν αὐτοῖς Ἱεροσολύμοις κεκινῆσθαι νεωτεροποιίας ὁ αὐτὸς ἐμφαίνει, παριστὰς ὡς οὐδαμῶς ἐξ ἐκείνου διέλιπον τήν τε πόλιν καὶ τὴν Ἰουδαίαν ἅπασαν στάσεις καὶ πόλεμοι καὶ κακῶν ἐπάλληλοι μηχαναὶ, εἰσότε τὸ πανύστατον ἡ κατὰ Οὐεσπασιανὸν αὐτοὺς μετῆλθε πολιορκία. Ἰουδαίους μὲν οὖν, ὧν κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τετολμήκασι, ταύτῃ πη τὰ ἐκ τῆς θείας μετῄει δίκης.

English · Claude translation

Besides these, the same writer shows that countless other revolts were stirred up in Jerusalem itself, making clear that from that time seditions, wars, and successive plots of evil never ceased in the city and all Judea, until finally the siege under Vespasian overtook them. In this way, then, the penalties of divine justice pursued the Jews for the crimes they had dared against Christ.

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Source
Dindorf 4:54–55 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • Eusebius's interpretation of these events as divine punishment is his own theological reading, common in early Christian writers.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.6.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/6/8/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.6.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/6/8/).

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