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Church History 1.13.11

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

Summary: The Syriac account (quoted): Thomas sent Thaddaeus, who lodged with Tobias; Abgar heard of his arrival.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:41

Ταύταις δὲ ταῖς ἐπιστολαῖς ἔτι καὶ ταῦτα συνῆπτο τῇ Σύρων φωνῇ. μετὰ δὲ τὸ ἀναληφθἠνα τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἀπέστειλεν αὐτῷ Ἰούδας ὁ καὶ Θωμᾶς Θαδδαῖον ἀπόστολον, ἕνα τῶν ἑβδομήκοντα· ὃς ἐλθὼν κατέμενε πρὸς Τωβίαν τὸν τοῦ Τωβία. ὡς δὲ ἠκούσθη περὶ αὐτοῦ, ἐμηνύθη τῷ Ἀβγάρῳ ὅτι ἐλήλυθεν ἐνταῦθα ἀπόστολος τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, καθὰ ἐπέστειλέ σοι.

English · Claude translation

To these letters the following was also attached in the Syriac language: “After Jesus was taken up, Judas, also called Thomas, sent to him Thaddaeus the apostle, one of the seventy. He came and stayed with Tobias the son of Tobias. When news of him was heard, it was reported to Abgar: ‘An apostle of Jesus has come here, as he wrote to you.’

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Source
Dindorf 4:41 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Abgar Syriac acts of Thaddaeus (Correspondence of Jesus and Abgar) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The narrative in 1.13.11–21 is quoted from the Syriac Edessene account (a form of the Doctrina Addai).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/11/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/11/).

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