Church History 3.10.1

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): the Jews have only twenty-two books, rightly held divine.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:101

“Οὐ μυριάδες οὖν βιβλίων εἰσὶ παρʼ ἡμῖν “ἀσυμφώνων καὶ μαχομένων, δύο δὲ μόνα πρὸς τοῖς “εἴκοσι βιβλία, τοῦ παντὸς ἔχοντα χρόνου τὴν ἀναγραφὴν, τὰ δικαίως θεῖα πεπιστευμένα.

English · Claude translation

“We do not, then, have tens of thousands of books disagreeing and conflicting with one another, but only twenty-two books, containing the record of all time, which are rightly believed to be divine.

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Source

Dindorf 4:101 · 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, Ag. Ap. 1.38 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation (3.10.1–5) is Josephus, Ag. Ap. 1.38–42.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/1/).

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