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Church History 7.19.1

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

Summary: The episcopal throne of James, the Lord's brother, was still preserved at Jerusalem.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:316

Τὸν γὰρ Ἰακώβου θρόνον, τοῦ πρώτου τῆς Ἱεροσολύμων ἐκκλησίας τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν πρὸς αὐτοῦ τοῦ σωτῆρος καὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων ὑποδεξαμένου, ὃν καὶ ἀδελφὸν τοῦ Χριστοῦ χρηματίσαι οἱ θεῖοι λόγοι περιέχουσιν, εἰς δεῦρο πεφυλαγμένον οἱ τῇδε κατὰ διαδοχὴν περιέποντες ἀδελφοὶ σαφῶς τοῖς πᾶσιν ἐπιδείκνυνται οἷον περὶ τοὺς ἁγίους ἄνδρας τοῦ θεοφιλοῦς ἕνεκεν οἵ τε πάλαι καὶ οἱ εἰς ἡμᾶς ἔσωζόν τε καὶ ἀποσώζουσι σέβας. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ταύτῃ.

English · Claude translation

For the throne of James, who first received the episcopate of the church of Jerusalem from the Saviour himself and the apostles, whom the divine words call the brother of Christ, has been preserved to this day; and the brothers there who care for it in succession show clearly to all what reverence both the men of old and those of our time kept and keep toward holy men for their love of God. So much for this.

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Source
Dindorf 4:316 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • Cf. Gal 1:19.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/19/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/19/1/).

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