Church History 1.9.3

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

Summary: This chronology exposes the recent forged “Memoirs” of Pilate against Christ.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:33

οὐκοῦν σαφῶς ἀπελήλεγκται τὸ πλάσμα τῶν κατὰ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ὑπομνήματα χθὲς καὶ πρώην διαδεδωκότων, ἐν οἷς πρῶτος αὐτὸς ὁ τῆς παρασημειώσεως χρόνος τῶν πεπλακότων ἀπελέγχει τὸ ψεῦδος

English · Claude translation

Clearly, then, the forgery of those who recently circulated Memoirs against our Saviour has been refuted; in them the very date noted at the beginning convicts the forgers of falsehood.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:33 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

The forged Acts of Pilate, anti-Christian propaganda circulated under Maximinus Daia (ca. 311–312); see 9.5.1.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.9.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/9/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.9.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/9/3/).

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