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Church History 3.4.7

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

Summary: Some say Paul's phrase “my gospel” refers to Luke's Gospel.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:86

φασὶ δὲ ὡς ἄρα τοῦ κατʼ τὸν εὐαγγελίου μνημονεύειν ὁ Παῦλος εἴωθεν ὁπηνίκʼ ὡς περὶ ἰδίου τινὸς εὐαγγελίου γράφων ἔλεγε “ κατʼ τὸ εὐαγγέλιόν μου ”

English · Claude translation

They say that Paul was accustomed to refer to the Gospel according to him whenever, as though writing of some gospel of his own, he said, “according to my gospel.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:86 · 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
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • The phrase is Rom 2:16; 16:25; 2 Tim 2:8. The digital text has κατʼ τὸν for κατʼ αὐτὸν.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.4.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/4/7/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.4.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/4/7/).

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