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Church History 3.8.11

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

Summary: The oracle fits Christ better than Vespasian, since Christ's apostles were then reaching the whole world.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:100

ἀλλʼ οὐχ ἁπάσης γε οὗτος ἢ μόνης ἦρξεν τῆς ὑπὸ ῾Ρωμαίους· δικαιότερον δʼ ἂν ἐπὶ τὸν χριστὸν ἀναχθείη, πρὸς ὃν εἴρητο ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς “αἴτησαι παρʼ ἐμοῦ, καὶ δώσω σοι ἔθνη τὴν κληρονομίαν σου, καὶ τὴν κατάσχεσίν σου τὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς.” οὗ δὴ κατʼ αὐτὸ δὴ ἐκεῖνο τοῦ καιροῦ εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος τῶν ἱερῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ εἰς τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ ῥήματα ἀυτῶν.

English · Claude translation

But he did not rule the whole world, only the part under the Romans; it would more justly be referred to Christ, to whom it was said by the Father, “Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.” At that very time, indeed, the voice of the holy apostles went out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:100 · 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
  • Ps 2:8 · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 19:4 (18:5 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are Ps 2:8 and Ps 19:4 (18:5 LXX).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.8.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/8/11/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.8.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/8/11/).

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