Church History 2.20.4

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): brigands murdered people in broad daylight in Jerusalem.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:73

πάλιν δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς συγγραφεὺς κατὰ τοὺς αὐτοὺς χρόνους ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ὑποφυῆναι λῃστῶν τι εἶδος ἱστορεῖ, οἳ ‘μεθʼ ἡμέραν ὥς φησι “ καὶ ἐν μέσῃ τῇ πόλει ἐφόνευον τοὺς συναντῶντας.

English · Claude translation

Again the same writer relates that at the same time a kind of brigands sprang up in Jerusalem, who, as he says, “by day and in the midst of the city murdered those they met.

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Source

Dindorf 4:73 · 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, J.W. 2.254 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation (2.20.4–6) is Josephus, J.W. 2.254–256.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.20.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/20/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.20.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/20/4/).

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