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Church History 1.9.4

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

Summary: The forgeries date the Passion before Pilate had even arrived in Judea.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:33–34

ἐπὶ τῆς τετάρτης γοῦν ὑπατείας Τιβερίου, ἣ γέγονεν ἔτους ἑβδόμου τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, τὰ περὶ τὸ σωτήριον πάθος αὐτοῖς τολμηθέντα περιέχει, καθʼ ὃν δείκνυται χρόνον μηδʼ ἐπιστάς πω τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ Πιλᾶτος, εἴ γε τῷ Ἰωσήπῳ μάρτυρι χρήσασθαι δέον, σαφῶς οὕτω σημαίνοντι κατὰ τὴν δηλωθεῖσαν αὐτοῦ γραφὴν ὅτι δὴ δωδεκάτῳ ἐνιαυτῷ τῆς Τιβερίου βασιλείας ἐπίτροπος τῆς Ἰουδαίας ὑπὸ Τιβερίου καθίσταται Πιλᾶτος.

English · Claude translation

For they place their audacious account of the saving Passion in the fourth consulship of Tiberius, which was in the seventh year of his reign, a time at which it is shown that Pilate had not yet even taken charge of Judea, if we are to use Josephus as a witness, who clearly indicates in the work mentioned that Pilate was appointed procurator of Judea by Tiberius in the twelfth year of his reign.

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Source
Dindorf 4:33–34 · 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. 18.35 (Josephus (works)) · allusion, medium confidence

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Translation notes

  • The source is Josephus, Ant. 18.35.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.9.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/9/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.9.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/9/4/).

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