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Church History 6.25.9

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

Summary: Origen: John wrote one Gospel and the Apocalypse.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:271

τί δεῖ περὶ τοῦ ἀναπεσόντος ἐπὶ τὸ “λέγειν τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, Ἰωάννου, ὃς εὐαγγέλιον ἓν κατα- ‘λέλοιπεν, ὁμολογῶν δύνασθαι τοσαῦτα ποιήσειν ἃ “οὐδὲ ὁ κόσμος χωρῆσαι ἐδύνατο; ἔγραψε δὲ καὶ τὴν “Αποκάλυψιν, κελευσθεὶς σιωπῆσαι καὶ μὴ γράψαι “τὰς τῶν ἑπτὰ βροντῶν φωνάς.

English · Claude translation

What need be said of him who leaned on Jesus' breast, John, who has left one Gospel, admitting that he could do so many things that not even the world could contain them? He also wrote the Apocalypse, being commanded to keep silence and not to write the voices of the seven thunders.

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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 John 13:25, John 21:25, and Rev 10:4. The digital text reads λέγειν for στῆθος (“breast”).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/9/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/9/).

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