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Church History 3.8.7

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): Jesus son of Ananias cried out woes against Jerusalem day and night, four years before the war.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:99

τὸ “δὲ τούτων φοβερώτερον· Ἰησοῦς γάρ τις υἱὸς Ἀνα- ‘νίου, τῶν ἰδιωτῶν ἄγροικος, πρὸ τεσσάρων ἐτῶν τοῦ πολέμου, τὰ μάλιστα τῆς πόλεως εἰρηνευομένης καὶ “εὐθηνούσης, ἐλθὼν ἐπὶ τὴν ἑορτὴν, ἐν ᾗ σκηνοποιεῖ- ‘σθαι πάντας ἔθος ἦν τῷ θεῷ, κατὰ τὸ ἱερὸν ἐξαπίνης “ἀναβοᾶν ἤρξατο ‘φωνὴ ἀπʼ ἀνατολῆς, φωνὴ ἀπὸ δύ- ‘σεως, φωνὴ ἀπὸ τῶν τεσσάρων ἀνέμων, φωνὴ Ἱεροσόλυμα καὶ τὸν ναὸν, φωνὴ ἐπὶ νυμφίους καὶ νύμ- ‘φας, φωνὴ ἐπὶ πάντα τὸν λαόν.’ τοῦτο μεθʼ ἡμέραν καὶ ‘νύκτωρ κατὰ πάντας τοὺς στενωποὺς περιῄει κεκρα- “γώς.

English · Claude translation

But more terrible than these: a certain Jesus, son of Ananias, an uneducated rustic, four years before the war, when the city was especially at peace and prosperous, came to the feast at which it was the custom for all to make tabernacles to God, and suddenly began to cry out in the temple: ‘A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the temple, a voice against bridegrooms and brides, a voice against all the people.’ This he went about crying day and night through all the alleys.

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Source
Dindorf 4:99 · 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
  • Josephus, J.W. 6.300–301 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Josephus, J.W. 6.300–301. The digital text has lost ἐπὶ before Ἱεροσόλυμα. Compare Jer 7:34.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/8/7/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/8/7/).

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