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Church History 3.32.3

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): heretics accused Simeon of being a Davidid and a Christian; he was martyred at 120 under Trajan.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:124

οὐδὲν δὲ οἷον καὶ τοῦ συγγραφέως ἐπακοῦσαι, αὐτὰ δὴ ταῦτα κατὰ λέξι ὧδέ πως ἱστοροῦντος “ἀπὸ τούτων δηλαδὴ τῶν αἱρε- “τικῶν κατηγοροῦσί τινες Συμεῶνος τοῦ Κλωπᾶ, ὡς “ὄντος ἀπὸ Δαβὶδ καὶ Χριστιανοῦ, καὶ οὕτω μαρτυ- “ρεῖ ἐτῶν ὢν ἑκατὸν εἴκοσιν, ἐπὶ Τραϊανοῦ Καίσα- “ρος καὶ ὑπατικοῦ Ἀττικοῦ.”

English · Claude translation

There is nothing like hearing the writer himself, who relates these very things word for word as follows: “Some of these heretics, namely, accused Simeon the son of Clopas of being of David's line and a Christian; and so he bore witness, being a hundred and twenty years old, under Trajan Caesar and the consular Atticus.”

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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)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Hegesippus, Memoirs. The age of 120 is Hegesippus's figure.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.32.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/32/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.32.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/32/3/).

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