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Church History 2.20.1

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

Summary: Josephus describes strife among the priests under Felix.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:72

Κατὰ δὲ Νέρωνα Φήλικος τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἐπιτροπεύοντος αὐτοῖς ῥήμασιν αὐθις ὁ Ἰώσηπος τὴν εἰς ἀλλήλους τῶν ἱερέων στάσιν ὧδέ πως ἐν εἰκοστῷ τῆς ἀρχαιολογίας γράφει

English · Claude translation

Under Nero, while Felix was procurator of Judea, Josephus again writes in the twentieth book of the Antiquities, in these very words, of the strife of the priests with one another:

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Source
Dindorf 4:72 · 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. 20.180 (Josephus (works)) · allusion, high confidence

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.20.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/20/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.20.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/20/1/).

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