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Church History 1.8.9

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

Summary: In the Jewish War, Josephus (quoted) describes Herod's diseases, which diviners called punishment.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:31

καὶ ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ δὲ τῶν ἱστοριῶν τὰ παραπλήσια περὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ παραδίδωσι, ὧδέ πως γράφων“ ἔνθεν αὐ- “ τοῦ τὸ σῶμα πὰν ἡ νόσος διαλαβοῦσα ποικίλοις πά- “ θέσιν ἐμέριζεν. πυρετὸς μὲν γὰρ ἦν οὐ λάβρος, ‘κνησμὸς δʼ ἀφόρητος τῆς ἐπιφανείας ὅλης, καὶ κώλου “ ἀλγηδόνες, περί τε τοὺς πόδας ὡς ὑδρω- “πιπωντος οἰδήματα, τοῦ τε ἤτρου φλεγμονὴ, καὶ αἰδοίου σηπεδὼν σκώληκας· γεννῶσα. πρὸς τούτοις “ ὀρθόπνοια καὶ δύσπνοια καὶ σπᾷς μοὶ πάντων τῶν “ μελῶν 5 ὥστε τοὺς ἐπιθειάζοντας ποινὴν εἶναι τὰ ‘νοσήματα λέγειν.

English · Claude translation

And in the second book of his Histories he relates similar things about the same man, writing thus: “Then the disease spread through his whole body and divided it among various sufferings. For there was a fever, not violent, an unbearable itching of the whole skin, pains of the colon, swellings of the feet as of one with dropsy, inflammation of the abdomen, and putrefaction of the private parts producing worms; besides these, difficulty in breathing, especially when upright, and convulsions of all the limbs, so that the diviners said the diseases were a punishment.

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Source
Dindorf 4:31 · 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. 1.656 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation (1.8.9–13) is Josephus, J.W. 1.656–660. A stray numeral in the digital text is omitted.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.8.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/8/9/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.8.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/8/9/).

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