Church History 3.36.11 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:129

ὁ δʼ αὐτὸς Σμυρναίοις γράφων οὐκ οἶδʼ ὁπόθεν ῥητοῖς συγκέχρηται, τοιαῦτά τινα περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ διεξιών “ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἐν σαρκὶ αὐτὸν οἶδα καὶ πιστεύω ὄντα. καὶ ὅτε πρὸς τοὺς περὶ Πέτρον ἐλήλυθεν, ἔφη αὐτοῖς, λάβετε, ψηλαφήσατέ με καὶ ἴδετε, ὅτι οὐκ εἰμὶ δαιμόνιον ἀσώματον· καὶ εὐθὺς αὐτοῦ ἥψαντο καὶ ἐπίστευσαν.’’

English · Claude translation

The same writer, writing to the Smyrnaeans, has used words from I know not what source, relating such things as these about Christ: “But I know and believe that he was in the flesh even after the resurrection. And when he came to those with Peter, he said to them, Take, handle me, and see that I am not a bodiless demon. And at once they touched him and believed.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:129 · 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

Luke 24:39 · allusion, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Ign. Smyrn. 3.1–2 (To the Smyrnaeans) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Ign. Smyrn. 3.1–2. The saying resembles Luke 24:39; Jerome attributes it to the Gospel of the Hebrews, Origen to the Teaching of Peter.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.36.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/36/11/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.36.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/36/11/).