Sophia Scriptura

Church History 3.6.1

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): the wealthy were killed for their property as the rebels' madness grew with the famine.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:89–90

Φέρε δὴ οὖν τῶν ἱστοριῶν τὴν πέμπτην τοῦ Ἰωσήπου μετὰ χεῖρας αὖθις ἀναλα- βὼν τῶν τότε πραχθέντων δίελθε τὴν τραγῳδίαν· τοῖς γε μὴν εὐπόροιςʼ’ φησὶ “ καὶ τὸ μένειν πρὸς “ἀπωλείας ἴσον ἦν. προφάσει γὰρ αὐτομολίας ἀνῃ- “ ρεῖτό τις διὰ τὴν οὐσίαν. τῷ λιμῷ δὲ ἡ ἀπόνοια ‘ τῶν στασιαστῶν συνήκμαζε, καὶ καθʼ ἡμέραν ἀμφό- ‘τερα προσεξεκάετο τὰ δεινά.

English · Claude translation

Come, then, take up again the fifth book of Josephus's Histories and go through the tragedy of what was then done: “For the wealthy,” he says, “even staying was equal to destruction; for on the pretext of desertion a man was killed for his property. The madness of the rebels grew with the famine, and each day both terrors blazed up more.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:89–90 · 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
  • Josephus, J.W. 5.424 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation (3.6.1–10) is Josephus, J.W. 5.424–438.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/1/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/1/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Whole work:BibTeX ·RIS ·Markdown text

Report an error in this passage