Church History 6.24.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Origen's works written at Alexandria also included commentaries on Genesis 1–8, Psalms 1–25, Lamentations, and On the Resurrection.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:268–269

κατὰ δὲ τὸ ἔνατον τῶν εἰς τὴν Γένεσιν δώδεκα δέ ἐστι τὰ πάντα) οὐ μόνον τοὺς πρὸ τοῦ ἐνάτου δηλοῖ ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας ὑπεμνηματίσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς τοὺς πρώτους πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι ψαλμοὺς, ἔτι τε τὰ εἰς τοὺς θρήνους, ὧν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐληλύθασι τόμοι πέντε, ἐν οἶς μέμνηται καὶ τῶν περὶ ἀναστάσεως· δύο δʼ ἐστὶ καὶ ταῦτα.

English · Claude translation

In the ninth book of those on Genesis (there are twelve in all) he shows that not only the books before the ninth were written at Alexandria, but also those on the first twenty-five Psalms, and also those on Lamentations, of which five volumes have reached us; in these he mentions also the books On the Resurrection, of which there are two.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:268–269 · 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)

Topics

Scripture and canon, Eschatology

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.24.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/24/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.24.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/24/2/).