Church History 3.10.2

Summary: Josephus (quoted): five books of Moses contain the laws and history to Moses' death.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:101

καὶ τού- ‘των πέντε μέν ἐστι τὰ Μωυσέως, ἃ τούς τε νόμους “περιέχει καὶ τὴν τῆς ἀνθρωπογονίας παράδοσιν, ‘μέχρι τῆς αὐτοῦ τελευτῆς. οὗτος ὁ χρόνος ἀπολείπει ‘τρισχιλίων ὀλίγῳ ἐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

Of these, five are those of Moses, which contain the laws and the tradition from the creation of man up to his death. This period falls a little short of three thousand years.

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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.
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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. 1.39 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Josephus, Ag. Ap. 1.39.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/2/).

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