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Church History 5.18.14

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

Summary: Apollonius records a tradition that the apostles stayed twelve years in Jerusalem, uses the Apocalypse, and tells of John raising a dead man at Ephesus.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:224

ἔτι δὲ ὡς ἐκ παραδόσεως τὸν σωτῆρά φησι προστεταχέναι τοῖς αὐτοῦ ἀποστόλοις, ἐπὶ δώδεκα ἔτεσι μὴ χωρισθῆναι τῆς Ἰερουσαλήμ. κέχρηται δὲ καὶ μαρτυρίαις ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰωάννου ἀποκαλύψεως, καὶ νεκρὸν δὲ δυνάμει θείᾳ πρὸς αὐτοῦ Ἰωάννου ἐν τῇ Ἐφέσω ἐγηγέρθαι ἱστορεῖ. καὶ ἄλλα τινά φησι, διʼ ὧν ἱκανῶς τῆς προειρημένης αἱρέσεως πληρέστατα διηύθυνε τὴν πλάνην. ταῦτα καὶ ὁ Ἀπολλώνιος.

English · Claude translation

He says further, as from tradition, that the Saviour commanded his apostles not to leave Jerusalem for twelve years. He also uses testimonies from the Apocalypse of John, and relates that a dead man was raised by divine power by John himself at Ephesus. And he says other things by which he sufficiently and fully corrected the error of the heresy mentioned. So much from Apollonius.

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Source
Dindorf 4:224 · 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
  • Ker. Pet. (Preaching of Peter) · allusion, low confidence
  • Apollonius (Apollonius, Against the Montanists) · allusion, medium confidence
Topics
Heresy, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • The twelve-year tradition also appears in the Preaching of Peter (Clement, Strom. 6.5.43).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.18.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/18/14/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.18.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/18/14/).

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