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Church History 3.7.7

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

Summary: The histories suffice on what befell the nation after it chose the murderer and rejected the author of life.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:97

περὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν μετὰ τὸ σωτήριον πάθος καὶ τὰς φωνὰς ἐκείνας, ἐν αἷς ἡ τῶν Ἰουδαίων πληθὺς τὸν μὲν λῃστὴν καὶ φονέα τοῦ θανάτου παρῄτηται, τὸν δὲ ἀρχηγὸν τῆς ζωῆς ἐξ αὐτῶν ἱκέτευσεν ἀρθῆναι, τῷ παντὶ συμβεβηκότων ἔθνει, οὐδὲν ἂν δέοι ταῖς ἱστορίαις ἐπιλέγειν.

English · Claude translation

As to what befell the whole nation after the saving Passion and those cries in which the multitude of the Jews begged off the brigand and murderer from death, and entreated that the author of life be taken away from among them, there would be no need to add anything to the histories.

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Source
Dindorf 4:97 · 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

  • Allusions to Acts 3:14–15 and Luke 23:18.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.7.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/7/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.7.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/7/7/).

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