Church History 1.3.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:12

οὐ πρότερον γοῦν τὸν αὐτοῦ διάδοχον τῇ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ κεχρημένον προσηγορίᾳ, ὀνόματι δὲ ἑτέρῳ τῷ Λύσῃ, ὅπερ οἱ γεννήσαντες αὐτῷ τέθειντο, καλούμενον, Ἰησοῦν αὐτὸς ἀναγορεύει, γέρας ὥσπερ τίμιον παντὸς πολὺ μεῖζον βασιλικοῦ διαδήματος τοὔνομα αὐτῷ δωρούμενος, ὅτι δὴ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ τοῦ Ναυῆ Ἰησοῦς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν τὴν εἰκόνα ἔφερε, τοῦ μόνου μετὰ Μωυσέα καὶ τὸ συμπέρασμα τῆς διʼ ἐκείνου παραδοθείσης συμβολικῆς λατρείας, τῆς ἀληθοῦς καὶ καθαρωτάτης εὐσεβείας τὴν ἀρχὴν διαδεξαμένου.

English · Claude translation

At any rate his successor, who had not before used the name Jesus but was called by another name, Hoshea, which his parents had given him, Moses himself names Jesus, bestowing the name on him as a precious honour far greater than any royal crown, because Jesus the son of Nun himself bore the image of our Saviour, who alone, after Moses and the completion of the symbolic worship delivered through him, succeeded to the rule of true and most pure religion.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:12 · 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

Num 13:16 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

Allusion to Num 13:16. In Greek “Joshua” and “Jesus” are the same name (Ἰησοῦς). The digital text has Λύσῃ for Αὐσῆ (Hoshea) and Μωθσἐα for Μωυσέα.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letters in the digital text): Μωθσἐα → Μωυσέα.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/3/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/3/4/).