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Church History 3.24.9

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

Summary: Matthew begins Jesus' ministry after John's arrest.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:113–114

μετὰ γοῦν τὴν τεσσαρακονταήμερον νηστείαν καὶ τὸν ἐπʼ αὐτῇ πειρασμὸν τὸν χρόνον τῆς ἰδίας γραφῆς ὁ μὲν Ματθαῖος δηλοῖ λέγων “ἀκούσας δὲ ὅτι Ἰωάννης πα- “ρεδόθη ἀνεχώρησεν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰουδαίας εἰς τὴν “λιλαίαν.”

English · Claude translation

After the forty days' fast and the temptation that followed it, Matthew indicates the time covered by his own writing, saying, “Hearing that John had been handed over, he withdrew from Judea into Galilee.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:113–114 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is a free form of Matt 4:12.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.24.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/24/9/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.24.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/24/9/).

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