Church History 2.1.6

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

Summary: At this time Thomas sent Thaddaeus to Edessa, fulfilling Christ's promise to Abgar.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:45–46

ἐν τούτοις καὶ τὰ τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν πρὸς τὸν τῶν Ὀσροηνῶν βασιλέα τέλος ἐλάμβανεν ὑποσχέσεως. ὁ γοῦν Θωμᾶς τὸν Θαδδαῖον κινήσει θειοτέρᾳ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἔδεσσαν κήρυκα καὶ εὐαγ- γελιστὴν τῆς περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ διδασκαλίας ἐκπέμπει, ὡς ἀπὸ τῆς εὑρεθείσης αὐτόθι γραφῆς μικρῷ πρόσθεν ἐδηλώσαμεν.

English · Claude translation

At this time, too, the promise of our Saviour to the king of the Osrhoenians was fulfilled. Thomas, at any rate, moved by divine impulse, sent Thaddaeus to Edessa as herald and evangelist of the teaching about Christ, as we showed a little earlier from the document found there.

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Source

Dindorf 4:45–46 · 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 (Correspondence of Jesus and Abgar) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

See 1.13.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/1/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/1/6/).

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