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Church History 1.2.26

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

Summary: Daniel's vision refers to Christ, the Word, called Son of Man because he became man.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:11

ταῦτα δὲ σαφῶς οὐκ ἐφʼ ἕτερον, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τὸν ἡμέτερον σωτῆρα, τὸν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεὸν θεὸν λόγον ἀναφέροιτο ἂν, υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου διὰ τὴν ὑστάτην ἐνανθρώπησιν αὐτοῦ χρηματίζοντα.

English · Claude translation

These things plainly could refer to no one else but our Saviour, God the Word who was in the beginning with God, called Son of Man because of his final incarnation.

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Source
Dindorf 4:11 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusion to John 1:1.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.26 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/26/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.26 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/26/).

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