Church History 3.7.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Providence delayed the destruction forty years while apostles and James still lived in Jerusalem as its bulwark.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:97

ταῦτα δʼ ἂν εἴη δίκαιον ἔτι προσθεῖναι, ἃ γένοιτʼ ἂν παραστατικὰ φιλανθρωπίας τῆς παναγάθου προνοίας, τεσσαράκοντα ἐφʼ ὅλοις ἔτεσι μετὰ τὴν κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τόλμαν τὸν κατʼ αὐτῶν ὄλεθρον ὑπερθεμένης, ἐν ὅσοις τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ τῶν μαθητῶν πλείους, Ἰάκωβός τε αὐτὸς ὁ τῇδε πρῶτος ἐπίσκοπος, τοῦ κυρίου χρηματίζων ἀδελφὸς, ἔτι τῷ βίῳ περιόντες, καὶ ἐπʼ αὐτῆς τῆς Ἱεροσολύμων πόλεως τὰς διατριβὰς ποιούμενοι, ἕρκος ὥσπερ ἐχυρώτατον παρέμενον τῷ τόπῳ,

English · Claude translation

But it would be right to add further what would show the kindness of all-good providence, which delayed their destruction for forty whole years after their crime against Christ, during which many of the apostles and disciples, and James himself, the first bishop there, called the Lord's brother, were still alive and dwelling in the city of Jerusalem itself, remaining as the strongest bulwark for the place,

About this passage

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)

Topics

Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.7.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/7/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.7.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/7/8/).