Church History 3.7.6

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

Summary: Comparing Christ's words with Josephus shows his foreknowledge to be truly divine.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:97

συγκρίνας δέ τις τὰς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν λέξεις ταῖς λοιπαῖς τοῦ συγγραφέως ἱστορίαις ταῖς περὶ τοῦ παντὸς πολέμου πῶς οὐκ ἂν ἀποθαυμάσειεν θείαν ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ ὑπερφυῶς παράδοξον τὴν πρόγνωσιν ὁμοῦ καὶ πρόρρησιν τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ὀμολογήσας;

English · Claude translation

If anyone compares our Saviour's words with the rest of the historian's accounts of the whole war, how could he fail to marvel and to confess that the foreknowledge and prediction of our Saviour were truly divine and supernaturally wonderful?

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Source: Dindorf 4:97 · 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: Christology

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/7/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/7/6/).

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