Church History 3.8.4

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): the massive eastern gate of the inner temple opened by itself at night.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:98–99

ἡ δʼ ἀν τολικὴ πύλη τοῦ ἐνδοτέρω χαλκῆ μὲν οὖσα καὶ στ βαρωτάτη, κλειομένη δὲ περὶ δείλην μόλις ὑπ ἀνθρώπων εἴκοσι, καὶ μοχλοῖς μὲν ἐπερειδομέν σιδηροδέτοις, κατάπηγας δʼ ἔχουσα βαθυτάτου “ὤφθη κατὰ νυκτὸς ὥραν ἕκτην αὐτομάτως ἠνοιγμένη. “

English · Claude translation

And the eastern gate of the inner court, which was of bronze and very heavy, and which was shut in the evening with difficulty by twenty men, was fastened with iron-bound bars and had bolts sunk very deep, was seen at the sixth hour of the night to have opened of its own accord.

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Source

Dindorf 4:98–99 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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. 6.293 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Josephus, J.W. 6.293. The digital text is damaged at the ends of lines.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.8.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/8/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.8.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/8/4/).

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