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Church History 5.17.3

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

Summary: No biblical or later prophet — Agabus, Judas, Silas, Philip's daughters, Ammia, Quadratus — prophesied in such ecstasy.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:220

τοῦτον δὲ τὸν τρόπον οὔτε τινὰ “τῶν κατὰ τὴν παλαιὰν, οὕτε τῶν κατὰ τὴν καινὴν “πνευματοφορηθέντα προφήτην δεῖξαι δυνήσονται, “οὔτε Ἄγαβον, οὔτε Ἰούδαν, οὔτε Σίλαν, οὔτε τὰς “Φιλίππου θυγατέρας, οὔτε τὴν ἐν Φιλαδελφείᾳ Ἀμ- “μίαν, οὔτε Κοδρᾶτον, οὔτε γε δή τινας ἄλλους μη- “δὲν αὐτοῖς προσήκοντας καυχήσονται.”

English · Claude translation

They will not be able to show any prophet, either under the old or under the new covenant, who was moved by the Spirit in this way: neither Agabus, nor Judas, nor Silas, nor the daughters of Philip, nor Ammia in Philadelphia, nor Quadratus; nor will they boast of any others, since they have nothing to do with them.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:220 · 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
  • Anon. Mont. (Anonymous Treatise against the Montanists) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the Anonymous Anti-Montanist; cf. Acts 11:28, 15:32, 21:9.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.17.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/17/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.17.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/17/3/).

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