Church History 1.11.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:37

ταῦτα περὶ τοῦ Ἰωάννου διελθὼν καὶ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν τοῦ συγγράμματος ἱστορίαν ὧδέ πως μέμνηται ‘γίνεται δὲ κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον Ἰησοῦς, “ σοφὸς ἀνὴρ, εἴ γε ἄνδρα αὐτὸν λέγειν χρή. ἦν γὰρ “ παραδόξων ἔργων ποιητὴς, διδάσκαλος ἀνθρώπων “τῶν ἡδονῇ τἀληθῆ δεχομένων, καὶ πολλοὺς μὲν τῶν ‘Ἰουδαίων, πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ ἐπη- “γάγετο.

English · Claude translation

Having related these things about John, he also mentions our Saviour in the same part of his work, as follows: “About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of men who receive the truth with pleasure; and he won over many of the Jews and many also of the Greeks.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:37 · 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

Josephus, Ant. 18.63 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation (1.11.7–8) is Josephus, Ant. 18.63–64, the so-called Testimonium Flavianum. Most scholars think the passage as transmitted contains Christian additions (e.g. “if indeed one ought to call him a man”, “He was the Christ”), though many hold that Josephus wrote a shorter original about Jesus.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.11.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/11/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.11.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/11/7/).