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Church History 1.13.12

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

Summary: The Syriac account (quoted): Thaddaeus healed many, and Abgar guessed he was the promised disciple.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:41

ἤρξατο οὖν ὁ Θαδδαῖος ἐν δυνάμει θεοῦ θεραπεύειν πᾶσαν νόσον καὶ μαλακίαν, ὥστε πάντας θαυμάζειν· ὡς δὲ ἤκουσεν ὁ Ἄβγαρος τὰ μεγαλεῖα καὶ τὰ θαυμάσια, ἃ ἐποίει, καὶ ὡς ἐθεράπευεν, ἐν ὑπονοίᾳ γέγονεν ὡς ὅτι αὐτός ἐστι, περὶ οὗ ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐπέστειλε λέγων, ἐπειδὰν ἀναληφθῶ, ἀποστελῶ σοί τινα τῶν μαθητῶν μου, ὃς τὸ πάθος σου ἰάσετει.

English · Claude translation

So Thaddaeus began, in the power of God, to heal every disease and weakness, so that all marvelled. And when Abgar heard of the great and wonderful things he did and how he healed, he suspected that he was the one of whom Jesus had written, saying, ‘When I have been taken up, I will send you one of my disciples, who will heal your suffering.’

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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

  • Quotation from the Syriac Edessene account.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/12/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/12/).

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