Sophia Scriptura

Church History 3.10.5

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): no Jew has dared to change the Scriptures; all regard them as God's decrees and would die for them.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:102

δῆλον δʼ ἐστὶν ἔργῳ πῶς “ἡμεῖς πρόσιμεν τοῖς ἰδίοις γράμμασι. τοσούτου γὰρ αἰ- “ῶνος ἤδη παρωχηκότος οὔτε προσθεῖναί οὔτε ἀφε- “λεῖν ἀπʼ αὐτῶν οὔτε μεταθεῖναι τετόλμηκε, πᾶσι δὲ “σύμφυτόν ἐστιν εὐθὺς ἐκ πρώης γενέσεως Ἰουδαίοις “τὸ νομίζειν αὐτὰ θεοῦ δόγματα, καὶ τούτοις ἐπιμένειν, “καὶ ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν, εἰ δέοι, θνήσκειν ἡδέως.”

English · Claude translation

It is clear in practice how we approach our own writings. For though so long an age has already passed, no one has dared to add, to take away, or to alter anything; but it is innate in all Jews from their very birth to regard them as decrees of God, to abide by them, and, if need be, gladly to die for them.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:102 · 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, Ag. Ap. 1.42 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Josephus, Ag. Ap. 1.42.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/10/5/).

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