Sophia Scriptura

Church History 3.10.7

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

Summary: Josephus planned a four-book work on God and the reasons for the Jewish laws.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:102

καὶ πρὸς τῷ τέλει δὲ τῆς εἰκοστῆς ἀρχαιολογίας ἐπισημαίνεται ὁ αὐτὸς, ὡσὰν προῃρημένος ἐν τέτταρσι συγγράψαι βιβλίοις κατὰ τὰς πατρίους δόξας τῶν Ἰουδαίων περὶ θεοῦ καὶ τῆς οὐσίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ περὶ τῶν νόμων, διὰ τί κατʼ αὐτοὺς τὰ μὲν ἔξεστι πράττειν, τὰ δὲ κεκώλυται. καὶ ἄλλα δὲ αὐτῷ σπουδασθῆναι ὁ αὐτὸς ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις αὐτοῦ μνημονεύει λόγοις.

English · Claude translation

And at the end of the twentieth book of the Antiquities the same writer indicates that he had resolved to write in four books, according to the ancestral opinions of the Jews, about God and his being, and about the laws, why according to them some things are permitted and others forbidden. The same writer mentions in his own works other works he had undertaken as well.

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Source
Dindorf 4:102 · 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, Ant. 20.268 (Josephus (works)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The source is Josephus, Ant. 20.268.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/7/).

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