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Church History 4.22.7

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted) lists seven Jewish sects: Essenes, Galileans, Hemerobaptists, Masbothei, Samaritans, Sadducees, and Pharisees.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:171

ἔτι δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς καὶ τὰς πάλαι γεγενημένας παρὰ Ἰουδαίοις αἱρέσεις ἱστορεῖ λέγων “ἦσαν δὲ γνῶμαι διάφοροι ἐν τῇ περιτομῇ ἐν υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ τῶν κατὰ τῆς φυλῆς Ἰούδα καὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὗται· Ἐσσαῖοι, Γαλιλαῖοι, Ημεροβαπτισταὶ, Μασβώθειο, Σαμαρεῖται, Σαδδου- “ καίοι, Φαρισαῖοι.”

English · Claude translation

The same writer also relates the sects that had arisen of old among the Jews, saying: “There were various opinions among the circumcision, among the sons of Israel, against the tribe of Judah and the Christ, these: Essenes, Galileans, Hemerobaptists, Masbothei, Samaritans, Sadducees, Pharisees.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:171 · 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
  • Hegesippus (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

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  • Quotation from Hegesippus.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.22.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/22/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.22.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/22/7/).

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