Church History 2.10.6

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): Agrippa did not reject the flattery, and then saw an angel above his head.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:57–58

οὐκ ἐπέπληξε τούτοις ὁ βασιλεὺς, οὐδὲ “τὴν κολακείαν ἀσεβοῦσαν ἀπετρίψατο. ἀνακύψας “δὲ μετʼ ὀλίγον τῆς ἑαυτοῦ κεφαλῆς ὑπερκαθεζόμενον “εἶδεν ἄγγελον. τοῦτον εὐθὺς ἐνόησε κακῶν εἶναι “αἴτιον, τὸν καί ποτε τῶν ἀγαθῶν γενόμενον, καὶ “ διακάρδιον ἔσχεν ὀδύνην.

English · Claude translation

The king did not rebuke them, nor reject the impious flattery. But looking up a little later, he saw an angel sitting above his head. This he at once recognized as the cause of evils, as it had once been of good things, and he felt a pain that pierced his heart.

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Source

Dindorf 4:57–58 · 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. 19.346 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Josephus, Ant. 19.346. In Josephus the figure is an owl, which Eusebius's text makes an angel (ἄγγελον), probably by abridgment of “an owl … as a messenger of evil.”

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.10.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/10/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.10.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/10/6/).

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