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Church History 6.13.7

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

Summary: Clement also cites Tatian, Cassian, and Jewish writers who proved Moses older than the Greeks.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:256

μνημονεύει τε τοῦ πρὸς Ἕλληνας Τατιανοῦ λόγου, καὶ Κασσιανοῦ ὡς καὶ αὐτοῦ χρονογραφίαν πεποιημένου· ἔτι μὴν Φίλωνος καὶ Ἀριστοβούλου, Ἰωσήπου τε καὶ Δημητρίου καὶ Εὐπολέμου, Ἰουδαίων συγγραφέων, ὡσὰν τούτων ἁπάντων ἐγγράφως πρεσβύτερον τῆς παρʼ Ἕλλησιν ἀρχαιογονίας Μωυσέα τε καὶ τὸ Ἰουδαίων γένος ἀποδειξάντων.

English · Claude translation

He mentions Tatian's work Against the Greeks, and Cassian as having also composed a chronology; and further Philo, Aristobulus, Josephus, Demetrius, and Eupolemus, Jewish writers, since all of these showed in writing that Moses and the Jewish race were older than the earliest origins of the Greeks.

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Source
Dindorf 4:256 · 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
  • Tatian, Or. Graec. (Oration to the Greeks) · allusion, high confidence
  • Philo (Philo of Alexandria (works)) · allusion, medium confidence
  • Aristobulus, Aristob. (Aristobulus (fragments)) · allusion, medium confidence
  • Josephus (Josephus (works)) · allusion, medium confidence

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.13.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/13/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.13.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/13/7/).

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