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Church History 3.24.13

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

Summary: So the Gospels do not conflict; John omitted the genealogy and began with Christ's divinity.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:114–115

οἷς καὶ ἐπιστήσαντι οὐκέτι ἂν δόξα διαφωνεῖν ἀλλήλοις τὰ εὐαγγέλια, τῷ τὸ μὲν κα Ἰωάννην τὰ πρῶτα τῶν τοῦ Χριστοῦ πράξεων περιε χειν, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ τὴν ἐπὶ τέλει τοῦ χρόνου αὐτῷ γε γενημένην ἱστορίαν· εἰκότως δʼ οὖν τὴν μὲν τη σαρκὸς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν γενεαλογίαν, ἅτε Ματθαίῳ καὶ Λουκᾷ προγραφεῖσαν, ἀποσιωπῆσαι τὸν Ἰωάη νῆν, τῆς δὲ θεολογίας ἀπάρξασθαι, ὡσὰν αὐτῷ πρὸς τοῦ θείου πνεύματος οἱα κρείττονι παραπεφυλαγμένης.

English · Claude translation

To one who attends to this, the Gospels would no longer seem to disagree with one another, since the one according to John contains the first of Christ's acts, and the others the history of what happened to him at the end of the time. And it is reasonable that John passed over in silence the genealogy of our Saviour according to the flesh, since it had already been written by Matthew and Luke, and began with his divinity, as though this had been reserved for him by the divine Spirit as for one greater.

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Source
Dindorf 4:114–115 · 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
Topics
Scripture and canon, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusion to John 1:1.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.24.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/24/13/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.24.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/24/13/).

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