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Church History 2.23.3

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

Summary: Clement had already said James was thrown from the temple pinnacle and clubbed to death.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:76

τὸν δὲ τῆς τοῦ Ἰακώβου τελευτῆς τρόπον ἤδη μὲν πρότερον αἱ παρατεθεῖσαι τοῦ Κλήμεντος φωναὶ δεδηλώκασιν, ἀπὸ τοῦ πτερυγίου βεβλῆσθαι ξύλῳ τε τὴν πρὸς θάνατον πεπλῆχθαι αὐτὸν ἱστορηκότος.

English · Claude translation

The manner of James's death has already been shown by the words of Clement quoted before, who related that he was thrown from the pinnacle and beaten to death with a club.

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Source
Dindorf 4:76 · 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
  • Clement of Alexandria, Clement, Hyp. book 7 (Clement of Alexandria, Hypotyposes (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • See 2.1.5.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/3/).

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