Sophia Scriptura

Church History 3.39.10

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

Summary: Acts names Justus Barsabbas as the other candidate with Matthias.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:135

τοῦτον δὲ τὸν Ἰοῦστον μετὰ τὴν τοῦ σωτῆρος ἀνάληψιν τοὺς ἱεροὺς ἀποστόλους μετὰ Ματθία στῆσαί τε καὶ ἐπεύξασθαι ἀντὶ τοῦ προδότου Ἰούδα ἐπὶ τὸν κλῆρον τῆς ἀναπληρώσεως τοῦ αὐτῶν ἀριθμοῦ ἡ τῶν Πραξέων ὧδέ πως ἱστορεῖ γραφή “καὶ “ἔστησαν δύο, Ἰωσὴφ τὸν καλούμενον Βαρσαββᾶν, ὃς “ ἐπεκλήθη Ἰοῦστος, καὶ Ματθίαν· καὶ προσευξάμε- “νοι εἶπαν.’’

English · Claude translation

The scripture of the Acts relates that after the Saviour's ascension the holy apostles put forward this Justus with Matthias and prayed over the lot to fill up their number in place of the traitor Judas, as follows: “And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias; and they prayed and said.”

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:135 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Acts 1:23–24.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/10/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/10/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Whole work:BibTeX ·RIS ·Markdown text

Report an error in this passage