Church History 3.8.9

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): scourged to the bone by the Roman governor, he answered each blow with “Woe to Jerusalem!”

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:99–100

νομίσαντες δʼ οἱ ἄρχοντες, ὅπερ ἦν, δαιμονιώτερον εἶναι κίνημα τἀνδρὸς ἄγουσιν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸν παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις ἔπαρχον· ἔνθα μάστιξι μέχρις ὀστέων ξαινό- “μενος οὔθʼ ἱκέτευσεν οὔτʼ ἐδάκρυσεν, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἐνῆν “μάλιστα τὴν φωνὴν ὀλοφυρτικῶς παρεγκλίνων πρὸς “ἑκάστην ἀπεκρίνατο πληγὴν, αἰαῖ Ἱεροσολύμοις.”

English · Claude translation

The rulers, thinking, as was the case, that the man's impulse was more supernatural, brought him to the Roman governor. There, flayed to the bone with scourges, he neither begged nor wept, but, turning his voice to lamentation as best he could, answered every blow with ‘Woe to Jerusalem!’”

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Dindorf 4:99–100 · 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.

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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)

Extrabiblical texts

Josephus, J.W. 6.303–304 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

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Quotation from Josephus, J.W. 6.303–304.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.8.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/8/9/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.8.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/8/9/).

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