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Church History 2.23.13

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): James proclaimed that Jesus, the Son of Man, sits at God's right hand and will come on the clouds.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:78

καὶ ἀπεκρίνατο φωνῇ μεγάλῃ, τί με ἐπε- “ρωτᾶτε περὶ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου; καὶ αὐ- “τὸς κάθηται ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἐκ δεξιῶν τῆς μεγάλης “δυνάμεως, καὶ μέλλει ἔρχεσθαι ἐπὶ τῶν νεφελῶν “τοῦ οὐρανοῦ.

English · Claude translation

And he answered with a loud voice, ‘Why do you ask me about Jesus the Son of Man? He is seated in heaven at the right hand of the great Power, and he is about to come on the clouds of heaven.’

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Source
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.
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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Hegesippus, Memoirs 5 (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Christology, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Hegesippus, echoing Matt 26:64.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/13/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/13/).

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