Church History 6.25.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:270

“ ὡς ἐν παραδόσει μαθὼν περὶ “τῶν τεσσάρων εὐαγγελίων, ἃ καὶ μόνα ἀναντίρρητά “ἐστιν ἐν τῇ ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ, “ὅτι πρῶτον μὲν γέγραπται τὸ κατὰ τόν ποτε ῾νην, ὕστερον δὲ ἀπόστολον Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ Ματ- “θαῖον, ἐκδεδωκότα αὐτὸ τοῖς ἀπὸ Ἰουδαϊσμοῦ πι- “στεύσασι, γράμμασιν Ἑβραϊκοῖς συντεταγμένον· “

English · Claude translation

“As I have learned by tradition about the four Gospels, which alone are undisputed in the church of God under heaven: that first was written the one according to Matthew, who was once a tax collector but afterward an apostle of Jesus Christ, who published it for those who came to faith from Judaism, composed in Hebrew letters;

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Source

Dindorf 4:270 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Origen, Commentary on Matthew, Book 1 (to 6.25.6). The word “tax collector” (τελώνην) is partly lost in the digital text.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/4/).