Church History 7.18.3

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

Summary: The statue was said to depict Jesus, and Eusebius saw it himself.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:316

τοῦτον τὸν ἀνδριάντα τοῦ Ἰησοῦ εἰκόνα φέρειν ἔλεγον. ἔμεινε δὲ καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς, ὡς καὶ ὄψει παραλαβεῖν ἐπιδημήσαντας αὐτοὺς τῇ πόλει.

English · Claude translation

They said that this statue bore the likeness of Jesus. It has remained even to our day, so that we saw it with our own eyes when we stayed in the city.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:316 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

The statue may originally have represented an emperor or a god of healing; this is a modern suggestion.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.18.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/18/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.18.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/18/3/).

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