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Church History 1.5.6

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

Summary: In the Jewish War Josephus (quoted) says Judas urged the Jews not to pay tribute to Rome.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:21

καὶ ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ δὲ τῶν ἱστοριῶν τοῦ Ἰουδαϊκοῦ πολέμου περὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ταῦτα γράφει “ ἐπὶ τούτοις τις ἀνὴρ Γαλιλαῖος Ἰούδας “ εἰς ἀποστασίαν ἐνῆγε τοὺς ἐπιχωρίους, “ ζων, εἰ φόρον τε Ῥωμαίοις τελεῖν ὑπομένουσι καὶ “μετὰ τὸν θεὸν οἴσουσι θνητοὺς δεσπότας.’ ταῦτα ὁ Ἰώσηπος.

English · Claude translation

And in the second book of his Histories of the Jewish War he writes this about the same man: “At this time a Galilean named Judas incited the inhabitants to revolt, reproaching them if they would submit to pay tribute to the Romans and would endure mortal masters after God.” So much from Josephus.

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Source
Dindorf 4:21 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Josephus, J.W. 2.118 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Josephus, J.W. 2.118. The digital text has ζων for ὀνειδίζων (partly lost).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/5/6/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/5/6/).

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