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Church History 2.17.6

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

Summary: Acts likewise records that believers sold their property and shared it according to need.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:65–66

τοιγαροῦν κἀν ταῖς ὁμολογουμέναις τῶν ἀποστόλων Πράξεσιν ἐμφέρεται ὅτι δὴ πάντες οἱ τῶν ἀποστόλων γνώριμοι ὢ τὰ κτήματα καὶ τὰς ὑπάρξεις διαπιπράσκοντες ἐμέριζον ἅπασι καθʼ ὃ ἄν τις χρείαν εἶχεν, ὡς μηδʼ εἶναί τινα ἐνδεῆ παρ΄ αὐτοῖς· ὅσοι γοῦν κτήτορες χωρίων ἣ οἰκιῶν ὑπῆρχον, ὡς ὁ λόγος φησὶ, πωλοῦντες ἔφερον τὰς τιμὰς τῶν πιπρασκομένων, ἐτίθεσάν τε παρὰ τοὺς πόδας τῶν ἀποστόλων, ὥστε διαδίδοσθαι ἑκάστῳ καθὸ ἄν τις χρείαν εἶχεν.

English · Claude translation

So too in the acknowledged Acts of the Apostles it is recorded that all the apostles' acquaintances sold their possessions and property and distributed to all as anyone had need, so that there was no one in need among them. All who were owners of lands or houses, as the account says, sold them and brought the prices of what was sold and laid them at the apostles' feet, so that distribution was made to each as anyone had need.

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Source
Dindorf 4:65–66 · 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.
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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)
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Translation notes

  • Allusion to Acts 2:45 and Acts 4:34–35.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.17.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/17/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.17.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/17/6/).

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