Church History 2.23.20

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted) is said to have written that Jerusalem's fall avenged James the Just.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:79

ἀμέλει γέ τοι καὶ ὁ Ἰώσηπος οὐκ ἀπώκνησε καὶ τοῦτʼ ἐγγράφως ἐπιμαρτύρασθαι διʼ ὧν φησι λέξεων “ ταῦτα δὲ συμβέβηκεν “Ἰουδαίοις κατʼ ἐκδίκησιν Ἰακώβου τοῦ δικαίου, ὃς ‘ ἦν ἀδελφὸς Ἰησοῦ τοῦ λεγομένου Χριστοῦ, ἐπειδήπερ δικαιότατον αὐτὸν ὄντα οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ἀπέκτειναν.”

English · Claude translation

Indeed Josephus did not hesitate to testify to this in writing, in these words: “These things befell the Jews in vengeance for James the Just, who was the brother of Jesus called the Christ, since the Jews killed him, though he was a most righteous man.”

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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

Josephus (Josephus (works)) · quotation, low confidence
Origen, Cels. 1.47 (Against Celsus) · echo, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

This sentence is not in any extant manuscript of Josephus; Origen also cites something similar (Cels. 1.47). It may be a Christian gloss known to Origen and Eusebius.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.20 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/20/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.20 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/20/).

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