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Church History 2.23.18

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): a fuller clubbed James to death; he was buried by the temple, and soon Vespasian besieged Jerusalem.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:79

καὶ λαβών τις ἀπʼ αὐτῶν εἷς τῶν “γναφέων τὸ ξύλον, ἐν ᾧ ἀπεπίεζε τὰ ἱμάτια, ἤνεγκε “κατὰ τῆς κεφαλῆς τοῦ δικαίου. καὶ οὕτως ἐμαρτύ- “ρησεν. καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῷ τόπῳ παρὰ τῷ “ ναῷ, καὶ ἔτι αὐτοῦ ἡ στήλη μένει παρὰ τῷ ναῷ. ‘ μάρτυς οὗτος ἀληθὴς Ἰουδαίοις τε καὶ Ἕλλησι γεγέ- “ νηται ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστός ἐστιν. καὶ εὐθὺς Οὐε- “ σπασιανὸς πολιορκεῖ αὐτούς. ”

English · Claude translation

And one of them, one of the fullers, took the club with which he beat out the clothes and brought it down on the head of the Just one. And so he bore witness. And they buried him on the spot beside the temple, and his monument still remains beside the temple. He has become a true witness to both Jews and Greeks that Jesus is the Christ. And immediately Vespasian besieged them.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:79 · 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
  • Hegesippus, Memoirs 5 (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Hegesippus. “Bore witness” (ἐμαρτύρησεν) means he was martyred.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/18/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/18/).

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