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Church History 2.23.8

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): members of the Jewish sects asked James what the “door of Jesus” was, and he said Jesus was the Saviour.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:77

τινὲς οὖν τῶν ἑπτὰ “αἱρέσεων τῶν ἐν τῷ λαῷ, τῶν προγεγραμμένων μοι “ ἐν τοῖς ὑπομνήμασιν, ἐπυνθάνοντο αὐτοῦ τίς ἡ θύρα “ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ. καὶ ἔλεγε τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν σωτῆρα.

English · Claude translation

Some, then, of the seven sects among the people, which I have described before in the Memoirs, asked him what the door of Jesus was; and he said that this one was the Saviour.

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Source
Dindorf 4:77 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Hegesippus. “The door of Jesus” is obscure; compare John 10:7, 9.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/8/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.23.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/23/8/).

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