Church History 1.6.10

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

Summary: Herod first put the high priest's vestments under his own seal, and his successors did the same.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:23–24

ὁ δʼ αὐτὸς δηλοῖ ὡς ἄρα καὶ τὴν ἱερὰν στολὴν τοῦ ἀρχιερέως πρῶτος Ἡρώδης ἀποκλεί- σὰς ὑπὸ ἰδίαν σφραγῖδα πεποίηται, μηκέτʼ αὐτὴν τοῖς ἀρχιερεῦσιν ἔχειν ὑφʼ ἑαυτοὺς ἐπιτρέψας· ταὐτὸ δὲ καὶ τὸν μετʼ αὐτὸν Ἀρχέλαον καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Ῥωμαίους διαπράξασθαι.

English · Claude translation

The same writer shows that Herod was the first to lock up the high priest's sacred vestment under his own seal, no longer allowing the high priests to keep it in their own charge; and that Archelaus after him, and after him the Romans, did the same.

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Source

Dindorf 4:23–24 · 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, Ant. 18.92–93 (Josephus (works)) · allusion, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The source is Josephus, Ant. 18.92–93.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.6.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/6/10/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.6.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/6/10/).

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