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Church History 3.27.4

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

Summary: They rejected Paul's letters as an apostate's and used only the Gospel of the Hebrews.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:119

οὗτοι δὲ τοῦ μὲν ἀποστόλου πάσας τὰς ἐπιστολὰς ἀρνητέας ἡγοῦντο εἶναι δεῖν, ἀποστάτην ἀποκαλοῦντες αὐτὸν τοῦ νόμου· εὐαγγελίῳ δὲ μόνῳ τῷ καθʼ Ἑβραίους λεγομένῳ χρώμενοι τῶν λοιπῶν σμικρὸν ἐποιοῦντο λόγον.

English · Claude translation

These thought that all the letters of the apostle ought to be rejected, calling him an apostate from the law; and using only the Gospel called according to the Hebrews, they made little account of the rest.

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Source
Dindorf 4:119 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Gos. Heb. (Gospel of the Hebrews) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Heresy, Scripture and canon

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.27.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/27/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.27.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/27/4/).

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