Church History 3.32.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Hegesippus reports that heretics accused Simeon, who after many days of torture died like the Lord.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:124

καὶ τούτου μάρτυς αὐτὸς ἐκεῖνος, οὗ διαφόροις ἤδη πρότερον ἐχρησάμεθα φωναῖς, Ἡγήσιππος· ὃς δὴ περί τινων αἱρετικῶν ἱστορῶν ἐπιφέρει δηλῶν ὡς ἄρα ὑπὸ τούτων κατὰ τόνδε τὸν χρόνον ὑπομείνας κατηγορίαν, πολυτρόπως ὁ δηλούμενος ὡσὰν Χριστιανὸς ἐπὶ πλείσταις αἰκισθεὶς ἡμέραις, αὐτόν τε τὸν δικαστὴν καὶ τοὺς ἀμφʼ αὐτὸν εἰς τὰ μέγιστα καταπλήξας, τῷ τοῦ κυρίου πάθει παραπλήσιον τὸ τέλος ἀπηνέγκατο.

English · Claude translation

The witness of this is that same Hegesippus whose words we have already used in various places. Relating about certain heretics, he adds, showing that at this time he, having endured an accusation from them, was tortured in various ways for very many days as a Christian, astonishing the judge himself and those with him in the highest degree, and met an end like the Lord's Passion.

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)

Extrabiblical texts

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

Topics

Martyrdom, Heresy

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.32.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/32/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.32.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/32/2/).