Church History 3.20.1

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): the grandsons of Jude were brought before Domitian, who feared the coming of Christ.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:106

“Ἔτι δὲ περιῆσαν οἱ ἀπὸ γένους τοῦ κυρίου “υἱωνοὶ Ἰούδα, τοῦ κατὰ σάρκα λεγομένου αὐτοῦ “ἀδελφοῦ, οὓς ἐδηλατόρευσαν ὡς ἐκ γένους ὄντας ‘Δαβίδ. τούτους δʼ ὁ Ἰουόκατος ἤγαγε πρὸς Δομε- “τιανὸν Καίσαρα· ἐφοβεῖτο γὰρ τὴν παρουσίαν τοῦ “Χριστοῦ ὡς καὶ Ἡρώδης.

English · Claude translation

“There still survived of the family of the Lord the grandsons of Jude, who was called his brother according to the flesh, and they were informed against as being of the family of David. The evocatus brought them to Domitian Caesar; for he feared the coming of Christ, as Herod also had.

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Source

Dindorf 4:106 · 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

Hegesippus (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation (3.20.1–6) is Hegesippus, Memoirs (lost). Ἰουόκατος transliterates the Latin evocatus (a recalled veteran soldier). The digital text repeats Χριστοῦ.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (repeated word in the digital text): τοῦ “Χριστοῦ Χριστοῦ ὡς → τοῦ “Χριστοῦ ὡς.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.20.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/20/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.20.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/20/1/).

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