Church History 2.17.2

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

Summary: Philo seems to describe and praise the apostolic ascetics, who were Hebrews keeping many Jewish customs.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:64–65

ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν βίον τῶν παρʼ ἡμῖν ἀσκητῶν ὡς ἔνι μάλιστα ἀκριβέστατ ἱστορῶν γένοιτʼ ἂν ἔκδηλος οὐκ εἰδὼς μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀποδεχόμενος, ἐκθειάζων τε καὶ σεμνύνων τοὺς κατʼ αὐτὸν ἀποστολικοὺς ἄνδρας, ἐξ Ἑβραίων, ὡς ἔοικε, γεγονότας, ταύτῃ τε ἰουδαϊκώτερον τῶν παλαιῶν ἔτι τὰ πλεῖστα διατηροῦντας ἐθῶν.

English · Claude translation

Moreover, in describing as accurately as possible the life of our ascetics, he would plainly be not only knowing but also approving, revering, and praising the apostolic men of his day, who were, it seems, of Hebrew origin, and so still kept most of the ancient customs in a rather Jewish way.

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Dindorf 4:64–65 · 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.

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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

Philo, Contempl. (Philo of Alexandria (works)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Eusebius's identification; see the note on 2.16.2.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.17.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/17/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.17.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/17/2/).

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