Saturday, December 28, 2024

Hegesippus teaching James and Jude were the "brothers" (αδελφος) of Jesus and Simeon son of Clopas was his "cousin" (ανεψιος)

  

Ecclesiastical History 2.23

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[1] Ἰουδαῖοί γε μὴν τοῦ* Παύλου Καίσαρα ἐπικαλεσαμένου ἐπί τε τὴν Ῥωμαίων πόλιν ὑπὸ Φήστου παραπεμφθέντος,* τῆς ἐλπίδος καθʼ ἣν ἐξήρτυον αὐτῷ τὴν ἐπιβουλήν, ἀποπεσόντες, ἐπὶ Ἰάκωβον τὸν τοῦ κυρίου τρέπονται ἀδελφόν, ᾧ πρὸς τῶν ἀποστόλων ὁ τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς τῆς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐγκεχείριστο θρόνος (1:168)

[1] When Paul appealed to Caesar and was sent over to Rome by Festus the Jews were disappointed of the hope in which they had laid their plot against him and turned against James, the brother of the Lord, to whom the throne of the bishopric in Jerusalem had been allotted by the Apostles. (1:169)

 

Ecclesiastical History 3.22

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[1] ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἐπʼ Ἀντιοχείας Εὐοδίου πρώτου καταστάντος δεύτερος ἐν τοῖς δηλουμένοις Ἰγνάτιος ἐγνωρίζετο. Συμεὼν ὁμοίως δεύτερος μετὰ τὸν τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἀδελφὸν τῆς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐκκλησίας κατὰ τούτους τὴν λειτουργίαν εἶχεν. (1:240)

[1] Moreover, at the time mentioned, Ignatius was famous as the second bishop at Antioch where Evodius had been the first. Likewise at this time, Simeon was second after the brother of our Saviour to hold the ministry of the church in Jerusalem. (1:241)

 

Ecclesiastical History 4.22

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[4] Ὁ δʼ αὐτὸς καὶ τῶν κατʼ αὐτὸν αἱρέσεων τὰς ἀρχὰς ὑποτίθεται διὰ τούτων· “καὶ μετὰ τὸ μαρτυρῆσαι Ἰάκωβον τὸν δίκαιον, ὡς καὶ ὁ κύριος, ἐπὶ τῷ αὐτῷ λόγῳ, πάλιν ὁ ἐκ θείου αὐτοῦ Συμεὼν ὁ τοῦ Κλωπᾶ καθίσταται ἐπίσκοπος, ὃν προέθεντο πάντες, ὄντα ἀνεψιὸν τοῦ κυρίου δεύτερον. διὰ τοῦτο ἐκάλουν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν παρθένον, οὔπω γὰρ (1:374)

[4] The same writer also describes the beginning of the heresies of his time as follows: “After James the Just had suffered martyrdom for the same reason as the Lord, Symeon, his cousin, the son of Clopas was appointed bishop, whom they all proposed because he was another cousin of the Lord. For this cause they called the church virgin, for it had not yet been corrupted by vain messages (1:375-77)

 

Sources used:

 

Eusebius, The Ecclesiastical History, 2 vols. (trans. Kirsopp Lake; The Loeb Classical Library; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1926–1932)

 

Eusebius, The Ecclesiastical History: Greek Text, 2 vols. (The Loeb Classical Library; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1926–1932)

 

 

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