Church History 1.2.12 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:6–7

γέγραπται γοῦν “ καὶ ἐγενήθη, ὡς ἦν Ἰησοῦς ἐν Ἱεριχὼ, καὶ ἀναβλέψας ὁρᾷ ἄνθρωπον ἑστηκότα κατέναντι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἡ ῥομφαία ἐσπασμένη ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ προσελθὼν Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν, ἡμέτερος εἶ ἢ τῶν ὑπεναντίων; καὶ εἶπεν αὐῷ, ἐγὼ ἀρχιστράτηγος δυνάμεως κυρίου νυνὶ παραγέγονα. καὶ Ἰησοῦς ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, δέσποτα, τί προστάσσεις τῷ σῷ οἰκέτῃ; καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ἀρχιστράτηγος κυρίου πρὸς Ἰησοῦν, λῦσον τὸ ὑπόδημα ἐκ τῶν ποδῶν σου· ὁ γὰρ τόπος, ἐν ᾧ σὺ ἕστηκας, τόπος ἅγιός ἐστιν.

English · Claude translation

It is written at any rate: “And it happened, when Joshua was at Jericho, that he looked up and saw a man standing opposite him, with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua came up and said, Are you ours or of our adversaries? And he said to him, I am the commander-in-chief of the power of the Lord; I have come now. And Joshua fell on his face on the ground and said to him, Master, what do you command your servant? And the commander of the Lord said to Joshua, Loose the sandal from your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy ground.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:6–7 · 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 5:13–15 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation is Josh 5:13–15 (LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text): ἐν Γῇ χειρὶ → ἐν τῇ χειρὶ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/12/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/12/).