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Church History 2.10.7

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): seized by violent pain, Agrippa acknowledged that the “god” was about to die.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:58

ἄθρουν δʼ αὐτῷ τῆς “κοιλίας προσέφυσεν ἄλγημα, μετὰ σφοδρότητος ἀρξά- “μενον. ἀναθεωρῶν οὖν πρὸς τοὺς φίλους, ὁ θεὸς “ ὑμῖν ἐγὼ, φησὶν, ἤδη καταστρέφειν ἐπιτάττομαι τὸν “βίον, παραχρῆμα τῆς εἱμαρμένης τὰς ἄρτι μου κατε- “ψευσμένας φωνὰς ἐλεγχούσης. ὁ κληθεὶς ἀθάνατος “ ὑμῶν ἤδη θανεῖν ἀπάγομαι. δεκτέον δὲ τὴν “ πεπρωμένην, ᾗ θεὸς βεβούληται. καὶ γὰρ βεβιώ- “ κάμεν οὐδαμῆ φαύλως, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τῆς μακαριζομένης “ λαμπρότητος. ταῦτα δὲ λέγων ἐπιτάσει τῆς ὀδύνης ‘κατεπονεῖτο.

English · Claude translation

A sudden pain in the belly seized him, beginning with violence. Looking round at his friends, he said, ‘I, your god, am now ordered to end my life, fate at once refuting the words just falsely spoken of me. I who was called immortal by you am now led away to die. But I must accept my lot, as God has willed; for we have lived in no mean way, but in a splendour counted blessed.’ Saying this, he was overcome by the increasing pain.

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Source
Dindorf 4:58 · 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. 19.347 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

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  • Quotation from Josephus, Ant. 19.346–347.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/10/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/10/7/).

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