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Church History 2.5.7

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

Summary: Philo reports Sejanus's plan to destroy the Jews and Pilate's provocations in the Jerusalem temple.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:52–53

πρῶτον δὴ οὖν κατὰ Τιβέριον ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς Ῥωμαίων μʼ πόλεως ἱστορεῖ Σηιανὸν, τῶν τότε παρὰ βασιλεῖ τὰ μέγιστα δυνάμενον, ἄρδην τὸ πᾶν ἔθνος ἀπολέσθαι σπουδὴν εἰσαγηοχέναι, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς Ἰουδαίας Πιλᾶτον, καθʼ ὃν τὰ περὶ τὸν σωτῆρα τετόλμητο, περὶ τὸ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἔτι τότε συνεστὼς ἱερὸν ἐπιχειρήσαντά τι παρὰ τὸ Ἰουδαίοις ἐξὸν, τὰ μέγιστα αὐτοὺς ἀναταράξαι.

English · Claude translation

First, then, he relates that under Tiberius, in the city of Rome, Sejanus, who at that time had the greatest power with the emperor, made every effort to destroy the whole nation utterly, and that in Judea Pilate, under whom the crimes against the Saviour were committed, attempting something in the temple in Jerusalem, which was then still standing, contrary to what was permitted to the Jews, threw them into the greatest disturbance.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:52–53 · 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
  • Philo, Legat. 159–161, 299–305 (Philo of Alexandria (works)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The sources are Philo, Legat. 159–161 and 299–305 (Pilate's shields), and perhaps Flacc. 1.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.5.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/5/7/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.5.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/5/7/).

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