Church History 1.6.7

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

Summary: When Hyrcanus was captured by the Parthians, Rome gave the Jewish nation to Herod.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:23

αὐτίκα γοῦν καὶ Ὑρκανοῦ, εἰς ὅν ὓστατον τὰ τῆς τῶν ἀρχιερέων περιέστη διαδοχῆς, ὑπὸ Παρθῶν αἰχμαλώτου ληφθέντος, πρῶτος, ὡς γοῦν ἔφην, ἀλλόφυλος Ἡρώδης ὑπὸ τῆς συγκλήτου Ῥωμαίων καὶ Αὐγούστου βασιλέως τὸ Ἰουδαίων ἔθνος ἐγχειρίζεται.

English · Claude translation

And at once, when Hyrcanus, with whom the succession of the high priests came to its end, was taken captive by the Parthians, Herod, the first foreigner, as I said, was entrusted with the Jewish nation by the Roman senate and the emperor Augustus.

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Source: Dindorf 4:23 · 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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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.6.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/6/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.6.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/6/7/).

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