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Church History 2.1.5

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

Summary: Clement (quoted) distinguishes James the Just, killed at the temple, from James beheaded by Herod; Paul also mentions James the Lord's brother.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:45

δύο δὲ γεγόνασιν Ἰάκωβοι, εἷς ὁ δίκαιος, ὁ κατὰ τοῦ πτερυγίου βληθεὶς καὶ ὑπὸ γναφέως ξύλω πληγεὶς εἰς θάνατον, ἕτερος δὲ ὁ καρατομηθείς.’’ αὐτοῦ δὴ τοῦ δικαίου καὶ ὁ Παῦλος μνημονεύει γράφων “ἕτερον δὲ τῶν ἀποστόλων οὐκ εἶδον, εἰ μὴ Ἰάκωβον τὸν ἀδελφὸν τοῦ κυρίου.’

English · Claude translation

There were two Jameses: one the Just, who was thrown from the pinnacle and beaten to death with a fuller's club, and the other who was beheaded.” Paul too mentions this same James the Just, writing, “But I saw none of the other apostles except James the brother of the Lord.”

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:45 · 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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Clement of Alexandria, Clement, Hyp. book 7 (Clement of Alexandria, Hypotyposes (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Clement of Alexandria, Hypotyposes, book 7; then Gal 1:19. The other James is James son of Zebedee (Acts 12:2).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/1/5/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/1/5/).

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