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Eusebius: Ecclesiastical History, Books I–X

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Book III — Chapter XIX — Domitian commands the Descendants of David to be slain.

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Chapter XIX.—Domitian commands the Descendants of David to be slain.

But when this same Domitian had commanded that the descendants of David should be slain, an ancient tradition says [1] that some of the heretics brought accusation against the descendants of Jude (said to have been a brother of the Saviour according to the flesh), on the ground that they were of the lineage of David and were related to Christ himself. Hegesippus relates these facts in the following words.