Church History 4.18.7

Summary: Justin (quoted) accuses the Jewish leaders of sending envoys everywhere to slander Christians.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:168–169

ἱστορεῖ δʼ ἐν ταὐτῷ περὶ Ἰουδαίων, ὡς κατὰ τῆς τοῦ Χριστοῦ διδασκαλίας ἐπιβουλὴν συσκευασαμένων, αὐτὰ ταῦτα πρὸς τὸν Τρύφωνα ἀποτεινόμενος· “οὐ μόνον δὲ οὐ “μετενοήσατε ἐφʼ οἷς ἐπράξατε κακῶς, ἀλλὰ ἄνδρας “ ἐκλεκτοὺς ἐκλεξάμενοι τότε ἀπὸ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ἐξεπέμ- ”ψατε εἰς ἅπασαν τὴν γῆν λέγοντες αἵρεσιν ἄθεον “ Χριστιανῶν πεφάνθαι, καταλέγοντές τε ταῦτα, ἅπερ καθʼ ἡμῶν οἱ ἀγνοοῦντες ἡμᾶς πάντες λέγουσιν, “ὥστε οὐ μόνον ἑαυτοῖς ἀδικίας αἴτιοι ὑπάρχετε, ἀλλὰ “καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασιν ἁπλῶς ἀνθρώποις.”

English · Claude translation

In the same work he relates concerning the Jews that they had devised a plot against the teaching of Christ, directing these very words to Trypho: “Not only did you not repent of the evil deeds you had done, but you then chose picked men and sent them out from Jerusalem into all the land, saying that a godless heresy of Christians had appeared, and reciting the things which all who do not know us say against us; so that you are the cause of injustice not only to yourselves but to all other men without exception.”

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Source

Dindorf 4:168–169 · 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

Justin, Dial. 17.1 (Dialogue with Trypho) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.18.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/18/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.18.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/18/7/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:168–169

English · Claude translation

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