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Church History 3.32.6

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): the Lord's relatives led the churches until Simeon, denounced by heretics, was tortured and crucified at 120.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:125

γράφει δὲ οὕτως “ἔρχονται οὖν καὶ προηγοῦνται πάσης ἐκκλησίας ὡς μάρτυρες καὶ ἀπὸ γένους τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ γενομένης εἰρήνης βαθείας ἐν πάσῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ μένουσι μέχρι Τραϊανοῦ Καίσαρος, μέχρις οὗ ὁ ἐκ θείου τοῦ κυρίου, ὁ προειρημένος Συμεὼν υἱὸς Κλωπᾶ, συκοφαντηθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν αἱρέσεων, ὡσαύτως κατηγορήθη καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τῷ αὐτῷ λόγῳ ἐπὶ Ἀττικοῦ τοῦ ὑπατικοῦ. καὶ ἐπὶ πολλαῖς ἡμέραις αἰκιζόμενος ἐμαρτύρησεν, ὡς πάντας ὑπερθαυμάζειν καὶ τὸν ὑπατικὸν πῶς ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι τυγχάνων ἐτῶν ὑπέμεινε· καὶ ἐκελεύσθη σταυρωθῆναι.”

English · Claude translation

He writes thus: “They came, then, and presided over every church as witnesses and as of the Lord's family; and when deep peace came in every church, they remained until Trajan Caesar, until the son of the Lord's uncle, the aforesaid Simeon son of Clopas, was falsely accused by the heresies and likewise himself charged on the same ground before Atticus the consular. And being tortured for many days he bore witness, so that all, even the consular, marvelled how at a hundred and twenty years he endured; and he was ordered to be crucified.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:125 · 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, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Hegesippus, Memoirs.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.32.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/32/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.32.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/32/6/).

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