Church History 3.30.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:121–122

. Ὁ μέντοι Κλήμης, οὗ τὰς φωνὰς ἀρτίως ἀνέγνωμεν, τοῖς προειρημένοις ἑξῆς διὰ τοὺς ἀθετοῦντας γάμον τοὺς τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐξετασθέντας ἐν συζυγίαις καταλέγει φάσκων “ἢ καὶ τοὺς ἀποστόλους ἀποδοκιμάσουσι. Πέτρος μὲν γὰρ “καὶ Φίλιππος ἐπαιδοποιήσαντο, Φίλιππος δὲ καὶ τὰς “θυγατέρας ἀνδράσιν ἐξέδωκε. καὶ ὅ γε Παῦλος οὐκ “ὀκνεῖ ἔν τινι ἐπιστολῇ τὴν αὑτοῦ προσαγορεῦσαι σύ- “ζυγον, ἣν οὐ περιεκόμιζε διὰ τὸ τῆς ὑπηρεσίας εὐ- “σταλές.”

English · Claude translation

Clement, however, whose words we have just read, next after what was said above, because of those who reject marriage, lists those of the apostles who were proved to have lived in married life, saying: “Or will they reject even the apostles? For Peter and Philip had children, and Philip also gave his daughters in marriage to husbands. And Paul does not hesitate in one letter to address his own yokefellow, whom he did not take about with him for the sake of the convenience of his ministry.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:121–122 · 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

Phil 4:3 · allusion, high confidence
1 Cor 9:5 · allusion, medium confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.6.52–53 (Miscellanies) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Marriage

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Clement, Strom. 3.6.52–53. Clement takes the “yokefellow” (σύζυγος) of Phil 4:3 as Paul's wife, a reading most interpreters reject; compare 1 Cor 9:5.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.30.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/30/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.30.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/30/1/).