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Church History 3.31.6

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

Summary: Having covered the apostles and the writings, Eusebius moves on.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:123–124

τὰ μὲν οὖν εἰς ἡμετέραν ἐλθόντα γνῶσιν περί τε τῶν ἀποστόλων αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν ἀποστολικῶν χρόνων, ὧν τε καταλελοίπασιν ἡμῖν ἱερῶν γραμμάτων, καὶ τῶν ἀντιλεγομένων μὲν, ὅμως δʼ ἐν πλείσταις ἐκκλησίαις παρὰ πολλοῖς ἀποστολικῆς μένων, τῶν τε παντελῶς νόθων καὶ τῆς ἀποστολικῆς ὀρθοδοξίας ἀλλοτρίων ἐν τούτοις διειληφότες ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ἑξῆς προΐωμεν ἱστορίαν.

English · Claude translation

Having thus set out what has come to our knowledge about the apostles themselves and the apostolic times, the sacred writings they have left us, those which are disputed yet publicly read by many in very many churches, and those altogether spurious and foreign to apostolic orthodoxy, let us proceed to the history of what follows.

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Source
Dindorf 4:123–124 · 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)
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • The digital text has μένων for δεδημοσιευμένων (lost letters).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.31.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/31/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.31.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/31/6/).

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