Church History 3.18.1

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

Summary: Under Domitian, John was exiled to Patmos for his witness.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:105

Ἐν τούτῳ κατέχει λόγος τὸν ἀπόστολον ἅμα καὶ εὐαγγελιστὴν Ἰωάννην ἔτι τῷ βίῳ ἐνδιατρίβοντα, τῆς εἰς τὸν θεῖον λόγον ἕνεκεν μαρτυρίας, Πάτμον οἰκεῖν καταδικασθῆναι τὴν νῆσον.

English · Claude translation

At this time, tradition holds, the apostle and evangelist John, who was still alive, was condemned to live on the island of Patmos because of his witness to the divine Word.

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Source

Dindorf 4:105 · 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)

Scripture

Rev 1:9 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Allusion to Rev 1:9.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/18/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/18/1/).

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