Church History 5.8.12

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

Summary: The Jews sent seventy elders skilled in both languages.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:208

οἱ δὲ ὑπήκουον γὰρ ἔτι τοῖς Μακεδόσι τότε) τοὺς παρʼ αὐτοῖς ἐμπειροτάτους τῶν γραφῶν καὶ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν διαλέκτων, ἑβδομήκοντα πρεσβυτέρους ἔπεμψαν Πτολεμαίῳ, ποιήσοντας τοῦθʼ ὅπερ ἠβούλετο

English · Claude translation

They (for they were still subject to the Macedonians at that time) sent to Ptolemy seventy elders, the most experienced among them in the Scriptures and in both languages, to do what he wished.

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Source

Dindorf 4:208 · 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

Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 3.21.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.21.2.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.8.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/8/12/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.8.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/8/12/).

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