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Church History 2.22.1

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

Summary: Under Festus, Paul was taken to Rome with Aristarchus; Acts ends with his two years of free preaching there.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:74

Τούτου δὲ Φῆστος ὑπὸ Νέρωνος διάδοχος πέμπεται, καθʼ ὃν δικαιολογησάμενος ὁ Παῦλος δέσμιος ἐπὶ Ῥώμης ἄγεται. Ἀρίσταρχος δʼ αὐτῷ συνῆν, ὃν καὶ εἰκότως συναιχμάλωτόν που τῶν ἐπιστολῶν ἀποκαλεῖ. καὶ Λουκᾶς δὲ, ὁ τᾶς πράξεις τῶν ἀποστόλων γραφῇ παραδοὺς, ἐν τούτοις κατέλυσε τὴν ἱστορίαν, διετίαν ὅλην ἐπὶ τῆς Ῥώμης τὸν Παῦλον ἄνετον διαστρῖψαι, καὶ τὸν τοῦ θεοῦ λόγον ἀκωλύτως κηρῦξαι ἐπισημηνάμενος.

English · Claude translation

Festus was sent by Nero as his successor. Under him Paul, having made his defence, was taken to Rome in chains. Aristarchus was with him, whom he also fittingly calls somewhere in his letters his fellow prisoner. And Luke, who handed down the Acts of the Apostles in writing, ended his history at this point, noting that Paul spent two whole years at Rome at liberty and preached the word of God without hindrance.

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Source
Dindorf 4:74 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusions to Acts 25–28 (especially Acts 27:2; 28:30–31) and Col 4:10.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.22.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/22/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.22.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/22/1/).

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