The Church History

What it shares word for word

Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. The Church History shares wording with 11 of the other 55. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.

• Chrysostom, On the Acts — 5 passages, the longest 25 words. Herod the King stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And Homily 26 and Book 2
• Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews — 4 passages, the longest 9 words. the high priesthood to Simon, the son of Camithus Book 18 and Book 1
• Aquinas, Catena Aurea on St Matthew — 3 passages, the longest 29 words. in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee Chapter 2 and Book 1
• Aquinas, Catena Aurea on St Mark — 3 passages, the longest 16 words. when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh Chapter 13 and Book 3
• Augustine, On St John — 3 passages, the longest 10 words. whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service Tractate 93 and Book 5
• St Matthew — 1 passage, the longest 13 words. there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven Matthew 19 and Book 6
• Chrysostom, On St Matthew — 1 passage, the longest 15 words. There are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of Heaven's sake Homily 78 and Book 6
• St Luke — 1 passage, the longest 9 words. in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Luke 3 and Book 1
• The Acts — 1 passage, the longest 13 words. After this man, rose up Judas of Galilee, in the days of the Acts 5 and Book 1
• Cyril of Alexandria, On St Luke — 1 passage, the longest 13 words. for whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He Sermon 12 and Book 10
• Tacitus, The Histories — 1 passage, the longest 7 words. Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord Book 5 and Book 1

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The names it carries

Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.

• Rome 222times
• Alexandria 93times
• Paul 81times
• Jerusalem 70times
• Peter 66times
• Antioch 58times
• Egypt 44times
• Herod 43times
• Moses 38times
• Alexander 33times
• Augustus 27times
• Ephesus 22times
• Corinth 19times
• Nero 17times

Where this text comes from

Translator: A. C. McGiffert, 1890. Source: CCEL.

The text here is Arthur Cushman McGiffert’s translation for the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, volume 1, 1890, public domain, from the text at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. McGiffert’s notes are not printed, and the Martyrs of Palestine, printed in the same volume, is not included.

Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.