Church History 2.17.24

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

Summary: Eusebius concludes that Philo was describing the first Christians and the apostles' customs.

BothGreekEnglish

Greek text · Dindorf 4:69–70

ὅτι δὲ τοὺς πρώτους κήρυκας τῆς κατὰ τὸεὐαγγἐλιον διδασκαλίας, τά τε ἀρχῆθεν πρὸς τῶν ἀποστόλων ἔθη παραδεδομένα καταλαβὼν ὁ Φίλων ταῦτʼ ἔγραφε, παντί τῳ δῆλον.

English · Claude translation

That Philo wrote these things having in view the first heralds of the gospel teaching and the customs handed down from the beginning by the apostles is plain to everyone.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:69–70 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

This is Eusebius's judgment; see the note on 2.16.2.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.17.24 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/17/24/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.17.24 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/17/24/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Whole work:BibTeX ·RIS ·Markdown text

Report an error in this passage