Church History 2.23.12

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): from the pinnacle they asked James about Jesus.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:78

“ἔστησαν οὖν οἱ προειρημένοι γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρι- “σαῖοι τὸν Ἰάκωβον ἐπὶ τὸ πτερύγιον τοῦ ναοῦ, καὶ “ἔκραξαν αὐτῷ καὶ εἶπαν, δίκαιε, ᾧ πάντες πείθε- “σθαι ὀφείλομεν, ἐπεὶ ὁ λαὸς πλανᾶται ὀπίσω Ἰησοῦ “τοῦ σταυρωθέντος, ἀπάγγειλον ἡμῖν τίς ἡ θύρα τοῦ “Ἰησοῦ.

English · Claude translation

So the scribes and Pharisees mentioned before set James on the pinnacle of the temple, and cried out to him and said, ‘Just one, whom we all ought to obey, since the people is going astray after Jesus who was crucified, tell us what the door of Jesus is.’

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Dindorf 4:78 · 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

Hegesippus, Memoirs 5 (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

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Quotation from Hegesippus.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/12/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/12/).

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