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Church History 3.32.4

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

Summary: Simeon's accusers were themselves arrested as Davidids; Simeon, son of Clopas and Mary, was probably an eyewitness of the Lord.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:124–125

φησὶ δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς ὡς ἄρα καὶ τοὺς κατηγόρους αὐτοῦ, ζητουμένων τότε τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς βασιλικῆς Ἰουδαίων φυλῆς, ὡσὰν ἐξ αὐτῆς ὄντας ἁλῶναι συνέβη. λογισμῷ δʼ ἂν καὶ τὸν Συμεῶνα τῶν αὐτοπτῶν καὶ αὐτηκόων εἴποι ἄν τις γεγονέναι τοῦ κυρίου, τεκμηρίῳ τῷ μήκει τοῦ χρό- νου τῆς αὐτοῦ ζωῆς χρώμενος, καὶ τῷ μνημονεύειν τὴν τῶν εὐαγγελίων γραφὴν Μάριας τῆς τοῦ Κλωπᾶ, οὗ γεγονέναι αὐτὸν καὶ πρότερον ὁ λόγος ἐδήλωσεν.

English · Claude translation

The same writer says that his accusers too, when those of the royal tribe of the Jews were being sought out at that time, were arrested as belonging to it. And one might reasonably say that Simeon too was one of the eyewitnesses and hearers of the Lord, using as evidence the length of his life and the fact that the scripture of the Gospels mentions Mary the wife of Clopas, whose son, as our account showed before, he was.

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Source
Dindorf 4:124–125 · 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)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusion to John 19:25.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.32.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/32/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.32.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/32/4/).

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