Church History 6.12.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Serapion wrote against the Gospel of Peter because it had misled some at Rhossus.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:254

ἕτερός τε συντεταγμένος αὐτῷ λόγος περὶ τοῦ λεγομένου κατὰ Πέτρον εὐαγγελίου, ὃν πεποίηται ἀπελέγχων τὰ ψευδῶς ἐν αὐτῷ εἰρημένα, διά τινας ἐν τῇ κατὰ ῾Ρωσσὸν παροικίᾳ προφάσει τῆς εἰρημένης γραφῆς εἰς ἑτεροδόξους διδασκαλίας ἀποκείλαντας. ἀφʼ ἧς εὔλογον βραχείας παραθέσθαι λέξεις, διʼ ὧν ἣν εἶχε περὶ τοῦ βιβλίου γνώμην προτίθησιν οὕτω γράφων

English · Claude translation

And another treatise composed by him, On the So-Called Gospel of Peter, which he wrote to refute the falsehoods in it, because of some in the community at Rhossus who had been led astray by that writing into heterodox teachings. It is reasonable to quote brief passages from it, in which he sets out the opinion he held about the book, writing thus:

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:254 · 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

Gos. Pet. (Gospel of Peter) · allusion, high confidence
Serapion of Antioch, Serapion (Serapion of Antioch (letters)) · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon, Heresy

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/12/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/12/2/).