Church History 2.18.5

Summary: Eusebius lists Philo's works on Exodus and the law.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:71

εἰς δὲ τὴν ἔξοδον ἔγνωμεν αὐτοῦ ζητημάτων καὶ λύσεων πρῶτον, δεύτερον, τρίτον, τέταρτον, πέμπτον. καὶ τὸ περὶ τῆς σκηνῆς, τό τε περὶ τῶν δέκα λογίων, καὶ τὰ περὶ τῶν ἀναφερομένων ἐν εἴδει νόμων εἰς τὰ συν- τείνοντα κεφάλαια τόν δέκα λόγων, ἁ b΄ g’ d’. καὶ τὸ περὶ τῶν εἰς τὰς ἱερουργίας ζῴων, καὶ τίνα τὰ τῶν θυσιῶν εἴδη. καὶ τὸ περὶ τῶν προκειμένων ἐν τῷ νόμῳ τοῖς μὲν ἀγαθοῖς ἄθλων, τοῖς δὲ πονηροῖς ἐπιτιμίων καὶ ἀρῶν

English · Claude translation

On Exodus we know of his Questions and Solutions, books one, two, three, four, five; also On the Tabernacle, On the Ten Commandments, and On the Laws Referred in Particular to the Chief Headings of the Ten Commandments, books one, two, three, four; On the Animals for Sacrifice and What Are the Kinds of Sacrifices; and On the Rewards Set Forth in the Law for the Good, and the Penalties and Curses for the Wicked.

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Dindorf 4:71 · 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 (Philo of Alexandria (works)) · allusion, high confidence

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Translation notes

  • The digital text writes the book numbers as Latin letters (ἁ b΄ g’ d’), a Beta-Code slip for α΄ β΄ γ΄ δ΄.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.18.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/18/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.18.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/18/5/).

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