Church History 2.1.4

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

Summary: Clement (quoted): after the resurrection the Lord gave the knowledge to James, John, and Peter, who passed it on to the apostles and the Seventy.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:45

ὁ δʼ αὐτὸς ἐν ἑβδόμῳ τῆς αὐτῆς ὑποθέσεως ἔτι καὶ ταῦτα περὶ αὐτοῦ φησιν “Ἰακώβῳ τῷ δικαίῳ καὶ Ἰωάννῃ καὶ Πέτρῳ μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν παρέδωκε “ τὴν γνῶσιν ὁ κύριος, οὗτοι τοῖς λοιποῖς ἀποστόλοις παρέδωκαν, οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ ἀπόστολοι τοῖς ἑβδομήκοντα, ὧν εἷς ἦν καὶ Βαρνάβας.

English · Claude translation

The same writer, in the seventh book of the same work, says this too about him: “After the resurrection the Lord handed down the knowledge to James the Just and John and Peter; these handed it down to the rest of the apostles, and the rest of the apostles to the seventy, of whom Barnabas was one.

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Source

Dindorf 4:45 · 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

Clement of Alexandria, Clement, Hyp. book 7 (Clement of Alexandria, Hypotyposes (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Clement of Alexandria, Hypotyposes, book 7 (lost). “Knowledge” (γνῶσις) is Clement's term for the deeper Christian understanding.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/1/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/1/4/).

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