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Church History 3.20.4

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): they said Christ's kingdom is heavenly and will come at the end, when he judges the living and the dead.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:106–107

ἐρωτηθέντας δὲ περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, ὁποία τις εἴη καὶ ποῖ καὶ πότε φανησομένη, λόγον δοῦναι ὡς οὐ κοσμικὴ μὲν οὐδʼ ἐπίγειος, ἐπουράνιος δὲ καὶ ἀγγελικὴ τυγχάνει, ἐπὶ συντελείᾳ τοῦ αἰῶνος γενησομένη, ὁπηνίκα ἐλθὼν ἐν δόξῃ κρινεῖ ζῶντας καὶ νεκροὺς, καὶ ἀποδώσει ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

When asked about Christ and his kingdom, what kind it was and where and when it would appear, they gave an account that it was not of this world nor earthly, but heavenly and angelic, and would come at the end of the age, when he would come in glory to judge the living and the dead and to repay each according to his conduct.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:106–107 · 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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Hegesippus (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Eschatology, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Hegesippus. Compare John 18:36; 2 Tim 4:1; Matt 16:27.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.20.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/20/4/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.20.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/20/4/).

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