Church History 1.2.24 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:10–11

τὴν γοῦν ἐπὶ τέλει βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ Δανιὴλ ὁ προφήτης συνορῶν θείῳ πνεύματι ὧδέ πως ἐθεοφορεῖτο, άνθρωπινώτερον τὴν θεοπτίαν ὑπογράφων. “ γάρʼ φησὶν “ ἴως οὗ θρόνοι ἐτέθησαν, καὶ παλαιὸς ἡμερῶν ἐκάθητο. καὶ τὸ ἔνδυμα αὐτοῦ λευκὸν ὡσεὶ χιὼν, καὶ ἡ θρὶξ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ ἔριον καθαρὸν ὁ θρόνος αὐτοῦ φλὸξ πυρὸς, οἱ τροχοὶ αὐτοῦ πῦρ φλέγον. ποταμὸς πυρὸς εἷλκεν ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ. χίλιαι χιλιάδες ἐλειτούργουν αὐτῷ, καὶ μύριαι μυριάδες παρειστήκεισαν ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ. κριτήριον ἐκάθισε καὶ βίβλοι ἠνεῲχθησαν.”

English · Claude translation

The prophet Daniel, for example, seeing his kingdom at the end by the divine Spirit, was inspired in this way, describing his vision of God in more human terms: “For I watched,” he says, “until thrones were set, and the Ancient of Days sat. And his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne a flame of fire, its wheels burning fire. A river of fire flowed before him. A thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. He set up judgment, and books were opened.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:10–11 · 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

Dan 7:9–10 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation is Dan 7:9–10 (Theodotion). The digital text's opening “γάρʼ” lacks ἐθεώρουν and has ἴως for ἕως; translated as the sense requires.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.24 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/24/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.24 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/24/).