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Church History 6.25.8

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

Summary: Origen: Peter left one acknowledged letter and a disputed second.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:271

Πέτρος δὲ, “ᾧ οἰκοδομεῖται ἡ Χριστοῦ ἐκκλησία, οὐ κατισχύσουσι, μίαν ἐπιστολὴν ὁμολογουμένην “καταλέλοιπεν, ἔστω δὲ καὶ δευτέραν· ἀμφιβάλλεται “γάρ.

English · Claude translation

And Peter, on whom the church of Christ is built, against which the gates of Hades shall not prevail, has left one acknowledged letter, and perhaps a second; for it is disputed.

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Source
Dindorf 4:271 · 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
  • Origen, Comm. Jo. 5 (Commentary on the Gospel of John) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Origen, Commentary on John, Book 5, alluding to Matt 16:18. The words “the gates of Hades” (πύλαι ᾅδου) are lost in the digital text and supplied from the allusion.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/8/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/8/).

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