Church History 1.13.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:40

“Ἄβγαρος τοπάρχης ᾿Εδέσσης ᾿Ιησοῦ σωτῆρι “ἀγαθῷ ἀναφανέντι ἐν τόπῳ ῾Ιεροσολύμων χαίρειν. “ἤκουσταί μοι τὰ περὶ σοῦ καὶ τῶν σῶν ἰαμάτων, ὡς “ἄνευ φαρμάκων καὶ βοτανῶν ὑπὸ σοῦ γινομένων. “ὡς γὰρ λόγος, τυφλοὺς ἀναβλέπειν ποιεῖς, χωλοὺς “περιπατεπῖν, καὶ λεπροὺς ἀναβλέπειν ποιεῖς, χωλοὺς “πνεύματα καὶ δαίμονας ἐκβάλλεις, καὶ τοὺς ἐν μα- “κρονοσίᾶ βασανιζομένους θεραπεύεις, καὶ νεκροὺς “ἐγείρεις.

English · Claude translation

“Abgar, toparch of Edessa, to Jesus, the good Saviour who has appeared in the district of Jerusalem, greeting. I have heard about you and your cures, that they are done by you without medicines or herbs. For, as the report goes, you make the blind see again and the lame walk, you cleanse lepers, you cast out unclean spirits and demons, you heal those tormented by long illness, and you raise the dead.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:40 · 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)

Scripture

Matt 11:5 · echo, medium confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Abgar Abgar's letter (Correspondence of Jesus and Abgar) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Abgar correspondence (Abgar's letter). The digital text garbles the list of miracles (repeating ἀναβλέπειν ποιεῖς, χωλοὺς); the translation follows the evident sense. Compare Matt 11:5.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/6/).