Church History 2.10.10 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Though Acts calls him Herod and Josephus Agrippa, the time and events show they are the same king.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:58–59

ταῦτα τὸν Ἰώσηπον μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ταῖς θείαις συναληθεύοντα γραφαῖς ἀποθαυμάζω. εἰ δὲ περὶ τὴν τοῦ βασιλέως προσηγορίαν δόξειέ τισι διαφωνεῖν, ἀλλʼ ὅ γε χρόνος καὶ ἡ πρᾶξις τὸν αὐτὸν ὄντα δεί- κνυσιν, ἤτοι κατά τι σφάλμα γραφικὸν ἐνηλλαγμένου τοῦ ὀνόματος, ἢ καὶ διωνυμίας περὶ τὸν αὐτὸν, οἷα καὶ περὶ πολλοὺς, γεγενημένης.

English · Claude translation

I greatly admire Josephus for agreeing with the divine Scriptures in these as in other matters. And if to some he seems to disagree about the king's name, yet the time and the deed show him to be the same person, either because the name was changed by some copying error, or because he, like many others, had two names.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:58–59 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.10.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/10/10/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.10.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/10/10/).