Church History 3.32.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Under Trajan local persecutions broke out, and Simeon son of Clopas, bishop of Jerusalem, was martyred.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:124

Μετὰ Νέρωνα καὶ Δομετιανὸν, κατὰ τοῦτον οὗ νῦν τοὺς χρόνους ἐξε- τάζομεν, μερικῶς καὶ κατὰ πόλεις ἐξ ἐπαναστάσεως δήμων τὸν καθʼ ἡμῶν κατέχει λόγος ἀνακινηθῆναι διωγμὸν, ἐν ᾧ Συμεῶνα τὸν τοῦ Κλωπᾶ, ὃν δεύτερον καταστῆναι τῆς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐκκλησίας ἐπίσκοπον ἐδηλώσαμεν, μαρτυρίῳ τὸν βίον ἀναλῦσαι παρειλήφαμεν.

English · Claude translation

After Nero and Domitian, under the emperor whose times we are now examining, tradition holds that persecution was stirred up against us in part and city by city through popular uprisings; in it we have received that Simeon the son of Clopas, whom we showed to have been appointed second bishop of the church in Jerusalem, ended his life by martyrdom.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:124 · 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)

Topics

Persecution, Martyrdom, Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.32.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/32/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.32.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/32/1/).