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Church History 10.4.3

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

Summary: Paulinus is compared to Bezalel, Solomon, and Zerubbabel as builder of God's house.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:451

εἴτε τις νέον σε Βεσελεὴλ, θείας ἀρχιτέκτονα σκηνῆς ἐθέλοι καλεῖν, εἴτε Σολομῶνα, καινῆς καὶ πολὺ κρείττονος Ἱερουσαλὴμ βασιλέα, εἴτε καὶ νέον Ζοροβάβελ, τὴν πολὺ κρείττονα δόξαν τῆς προτέρας τῷ νεῷ τοῦ θεοῦ περιτιθέντα·

English · Claude translation

whether one should wish to call you a new Bezalel, the architect of a divine tabernacle, or a Solomon, king of a new and far better Jerusalem, or a new Zerubbabel, adding to the temple of God a glory far greater than the former;

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Source
Dindorf 4:451 · 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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Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are to Exod 31:2–5, 1 Kgs 6, and Hag 2:9.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/3/).

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