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Church History 3.39.9

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

Summary: Papias heard from Philip's daughters of a man raised from the dead, and of Justus Barsabbas surviving poison.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:134–135

τὸ μὲν οὖν κατὰ τὴν Ἱεράπολιν Φίλιππον τὸν ἀπόστολον ἅμα ταῖς θυγατράσι διατρῖψαι διὰ τῶν πρόσθεν δεδήλωται, ὡς δὲ κατὰ τοὺς αὐτοὺς ὁ Παπίας γενόμενος διήγησιν παρειληφέναι θαυμασίαν ὑπὸ τῶν τοῦ Φιλίππου θυγατέρων μνημονεύει τὰ νῦν σημειωτέον. νεκροῦ γὰρ ἀνάστασιν κατʼ αὐτὸν γεγονυῖαν ἱστορεῖ, καὶ αὖ πάλιν ἕτερον παράδοξον περὶ Ἰοῦστον τὸν ἐπικληθέντα Βαρσαββᾶν γεγονὸς, ὡς δηλητήριον φάρμακον ἐμπιόντος καὶ μηδὲν ἀηδὲς διὰ τὴν τοῦ κυρίου χάριν ὑπομείναντος.

English · Claude translation

That Philip the apostle lived at Hierapolis with his daughters has been shown above; but it should now be noted how Papias, their contemporary, mentions that he received a wonderful story from the daughters of Philip. For he relates that a resurrection of a dead man took place in his time, and again another marvel concerning Justus surnamed Barsabbas, that he drank a deadly poison and, by the grace of the Lord, suffered no harm.

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Source
Dindorf 4:134–135 · 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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Papias (Papias (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Compare Mark 16:18.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/9/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/9/).

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