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Church History 4.6.3

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

Summary: After the fall of Beththera, Hadrian banned Jews even from approaching Jerusalem, as Ariston of Pella relates.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:140

ἀκμάσαντος δὲ τοῦ πολέμου ἔτους ὀκτωκαιδεκάτου τῆς ἡγεμονίας Ἀδριανοῦ κατὰ Βίθθηρα πόλιν, ἥτις ἦν ἐχυρωτάτη, τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων οὐ σφόδρα πόρρω διεστῶσα, τῆς τε ἔξωθεν πολιορκίας χρονίου γενομένης, λιμῷ τε καὶ δίψει τῶν νεωτεροποιῶν εἰς ἔσχατον ὀλέθρου περιελαθέντων, καὶ τοῦ τῆς ἀπονοίας αὐτοῖς αἰτίου τὴν ἀξίαν ἐκτίσαντος δίκην, τὸ πᾶν ἔθνος ἐξ ἐκείνου καὶ τῆς περὶ τὰ Ἱεροσόλυμα γῆς πάμπαν ἐπιβαίνειν εἴργεται, νόμου δόγματι καὶ διατάξεσιν Ἀδριανοῦ, ὡς ἂν μηδʼ ἐξ ἀπόπτου θεωροῖεν τὸ πατρῷον ἔδαφος, ἐγκελευσαμένου. Ἀρίστων ὁ Πελλαῖος ἱστορεῖ.

English · Claude translation

When the war reached its height in the eighteenth year of Hadrian's reign, at the city of Beththera, a very strong place not very far from Jerusalem, and the siege from outside lasted long, and the rebels were driven to the extreme of destruction by hunger and thirst, and the author of their madness had paid the just penalty, from then on the whole nation was altogether forbidden to set foot even on the land around Jerusalem, by the decree of a law and the ordinances of Hadrian, who commanded that they should not even behold their ancestral soil from a distance. So Ariston of Pella relates.

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Source
Dindorf 4:140 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Aristo of Pella, Jas. Pap. (Aristo of Pella, Dispute of Jason and Papiscus) · allusion, low confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Ariston of Pella's work (probably the Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus) is lost.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/6/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/6/3/).

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