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Church History 3.39.11

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

Summary: Papias also records strange parables, teachings, and legends from oral tradition.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:135

καὶ ἄλλα δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς ὡσὰν ἐκ παραδόσεως ἀγράφου εἰς αὐτὸν ἥκοντα παρατέθειται, ξένας τέ τινας παραβολὰς τοῦ σωτῆρος καὶ διδασκαλίας αὐτοῦ, καί τινα ἄλλα μυθικώτερα.

English · Claude translation

The same writer also sets down other things as having come to him from unwritten tradition, some strange parables of the Saviour and teachings of his, and some other things rather more fabulous.

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Source
Dindorf 4:135 · 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
  • Papias (Papias (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/11/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/11/).

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