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Church History 3.10.8

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

Summary: Eusebius introduces Josephus's words against Justus of Tiberias.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:102

πρὸς τούτοις εὔλογον καταλέξαι καὶ ἃς ἐπʼ αὐτοῦ τῆς ἀρχαιολογίας τοῦ τέλους φωνὰς παρατέθειται, εἰς πίστωσιν τῆς τῶν ἐξ αὐτοῦ παραληφθέντων ἡμῖν μαρτυρίας. διαβάλλων δῆτα Ἰοῦστον Τιβεριέα, ὁμοίως αὐτῷ τὰ κατὰ τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἱστορῆσαι χρόνους πεπειραμένον, ὡς μὴ τἀληθῆ συγγεγραφότα πολλάς τε ἄλλας εὐθύνα ἐπαγαγὼν τῷ ἀνδρὶ, καὶ ταῦτα αὐτοῖς ῥήμασιν ἐπιλέγει

English · Claude translation

Besides these it is reasonable to quote also the words he has set down at the end of the Antiquities, to confirm the testimony of what we have taken from him. Attacking Justus of Tiberias, who had likewise tried to write the history of the same times, for not having written the truth, and bringing many other charges against the man, he adds these very words:

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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, Life 361 (Josephus (works)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The words quoted next are from Josephus, Life 361–364, which was appended to the Antiquities.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/8/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/8/).

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