Church History 3.38.4

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

Summary: A second letter of Clement exists, but was not used by the ancients.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:132

ἰστέον δʼ ὡς καὶ δευτέρα τις εἶναι λέγεται τοῦ Κλήμεντος ἐπιστολή. οὐ μὴν ἴθʼ ὁμοίως τῇ προτέρᾳ καὶ ταύτην γνώριμον ἐπιστάμεθα, ὅτι μηδὲ τοὺς ἀρχαίους αὐτῇ κεχρημένους ἴσμεν.

English · Claude translation

It should be known that a second letter of Clement is also said to exist. But we do not know it to be recognized like the first, since we do not know that the ancients used it.

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Source

Dindorf 4:132 · 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

2 Clem. (2 Clement) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

This is the work now called 2 Clement.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.38.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/38/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.38.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/38/4/).

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