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Church History 1.13.16

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

Summary: The Syriac account (quoted): Abgar would have attacked the Jews who crucified Jesus but for Rome; Thaddaeus replied that Christ fulfilled the Father's will.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:42

καὶ ὁ Ἄβγαρος πρὸς αὐτόν “ οὕτως ἐπίστευσα, φησὶν, ἐν αὐτῷ, ὡς καὶ τοὺς Ἰουδαίους τοὺς σταυρώσαντας αὐτὸν βουλη- θῆναι δύναμιν παραλαβὼν κατακόψαι, εἰ μὴ διὰ τὴν βασιλείαν τὴν Ῥωμαίων ἀνεκόπην τούτου.’ καὶ ὁ Θαδδαῖοςδ εἶπεν “ ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ πεπλήρωκε, καὶ πληρώσας ἀνελήφθη πρὸς τὸν πατέρα. ”

English · Claude translation

And Abgar said to him, ‘I so believed in him that I wanted to take a force and destroy the Jews who crucified him, had I not been prevented from this by the Roman Empire.’ And Thaddaeus said, ‘Our Lord has fulfilled the will of his Father, and having fulfilled it, has been taken up to the Father.’

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:42 · 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; Abgar's hostility is the legend's own.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/16/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/16/).

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