Toledot HaQahal Ri’shonim — Book 3 — Chapter 32 - Shim'on of Yerushalayim Suffers Martyrdom
HaSefarim™ · Passage ID 6a9de1d94ae9bad510e3987f · Passage external ID sefer_186_toledot_haqahal_rishonim_bk_03_ch_32_u_001 · Work ID 6a9de1ca56a381d7246cd59e · Canonical Sefer title Toledot HaQahal Ri’shonim · Chapter ID 6a9de1cd880d0cb46c161be5 · Chapter Book 3 — Chapter 32 - Shim'on of Yerushalayim Suffers Martyrdom · Passage label Book 3 — Chapter 32 - Shim'on of Yerushalayim Suffers Martyrdom · Passage number 1 · Publication status published · Access visibility PUBLIC_FULL
Canonical human URL: https://hasefarim.org/sefer/toledot-haqahal-rishonim/32#passage-6a9de1d94ae9bad510e3987f · Canonical source URL: https://hasefarim.org/functions/source?route=%2Fpassage%2Fsefer_186_toledot_haqahal_rishonim_bk_03_ch_32_u_001
Book III carries the narrative through the destruction of Yerushalayim, the post-apostolic successions, Domitian, Trajan, early writings, and Eusebius's catalogue of accepted and disputed texts. The chapter records coercion under Roman or local authority: arrest, interrogation, confiscation, exile, torture, execution, or public pressure. Eusebius praises endurance but also records those who yielded, fled, or were later restored. He synchronizes local leadership with imperial reigns, using successions at Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Yerushalayim as chronological anchors. These notices are institutional claims from his sources, not proof that every later title or jurisdiction existed in identical form from the beginning. In this reconstruction the chapter coordinate is preserved as Book 3, Chapter 32, and the full subject is retained under the heading 'Shim'on of Yerushalayim Suffers Martyrdom'. Names, dates, quoted-source relationships, and political or textual function are kept distinct from Eusebius's own interpretive claims.