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Church History 3.10.9

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): unlike Justus, he gave his books to the emperors themselves, confident of their truth.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:102–103

“οὐ μὴν ἐγώ σοι τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον περὶ τῆς “ἐμαυτοῦ γραφῆς ἔδεισα, ἀλλʼ αὐτοῖς ἐπέδωκα τοῖς αὐτοκράτορσι τὰ βιβλία, μόνον οὐχὶ τῶν ἔργων ἤδη βλεπομένων. συνῄδειν γὰρ ἐμαυτῷ τετηρηκότι τὴν τῆς ἀληθείας παράδοσιν, ἐφʼ ᾗ μαρτυρίας τεύξεσθαι προσδοκήσας οὐ διήμαρτον.

English · Claude translation

“I, however, did not have the same fear as you about my own writing, but I presented the books to the emperors themselves, when the deeds were all but still before their eyes. For I was conscious of having preserved the tradition of the truth, and in expecting to obtain their testimony to it I was not disappointed.

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Source
Dindorf 4:102–103 · 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)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation (3.10.9–11) is Josephus, Life 361–363.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/9/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/9/).

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