Church History 3.35.1

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

Summary: After Simeon's martyrdom a Jewish Christian named Justus became bishop of Jerusalem.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:127

Ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ Συμεῶνος τὸν δηλωθέντα τελειωθέντος τρόπον, τῆς ἐν ‘Ιεροσολύμοις ἐπισκοπῆς τὸν θρόνον Ἰουδαῖός τις ὄνομα Ιοῦστος, μυρίων ὅσων ἐκ περιτομῆς εἰς τὸν Χριστὸν τηνικαῦτα πεπιστευκότων εἶς καὶ αὐτὸς ὢν, διαδέχεται.

English · Claude translation

And when Simeon had been perfected in the manner shown, a Jew named Justus, himself one of the countless numbers of the circumcision who had then believed in Christ, succeeded to the throne of the episcopate in Jerusalem.

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Source: Dindorf 4:127 · 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: Church office

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.35.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/35/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.35.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/35/1/).

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