Church History 1.2.11 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:6

τοῦτον καὶ ὁ Μωυσέως διάδοχος Ἰησοῦς ὡσὰν τῶν οὐρανίων ἀγγέλων καὶ ἀρχαγγέλων τῶν τε ὑπερκοσμίων δυνάμεων ἡγούμενον, καὶ ὡσανεὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ὕπαρχον, τὰ δευτερεῖα τῆς κατὰ πάντων βασιλείας τε καὶ ἀρχῆς ἐμπεπιστευμένον, ἀρχιστράτηγον δυνάμεως κυρίου ὀνομάζει, οὐκ ἄλλως αὐτὸν ἢ αὖθις ἐν ἀνθρώπου μορφῇ καὶ σχήματι θεωρήσας.

English · Claude translation

Him too Moses' successor Joshua, beholding him once more in the form and shape of a man, names the commander-in-chief of the power of the Lord, as the leader of the heavenly angels and archangels and the powers above the world, and as it were the Father's viceroy, entrusted with the second rank of kingship and rule over all.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:6 · 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)

Scripture

Josh 5:14 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

A stray numeral “5” in the digital text (a printed line number) is omitted. The title is from Josh 5:14.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray line number and wrong breathing in the digital text): ὓπαρχον, 5 τὰ → ὕπαρχον, τὰ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/11/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/11/).