Church History 6.36.2

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

Summary: Origen also wrote Against Celsus, twenty-five books on Matthew, and commentaries on the twelve prophets.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:277–278

ἐν τούτῳ καὶ τὰ πρὸς τὸν ἐπιγεγραμμένον καθʼ ἡμῶν Κέλσου τοῦ Ἐπικουρείου ἀληθῆ λόγον ὀκτὼ τὸν ἀριθμὸν συγγράμματα συντάττει, καὶ τοὺς εἰς τὸ κατὰ Ματθαῖον εὐαγγέλιον εἴκοσι πέντε τόμους, τούς τε εἰς τοὺς δώδεκα προφήτας, ἀφʼ ὧν μόνους ηὕρομεν πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι.

English · Claude translation

At this time he also composed the eight books against the work of Celsus the Epicurean entitled The True Word, written against us, and the twenty-five volumes on the Gospel according to Matthew, and those on the twelve prophets, of which we have found only twenty-five.

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Dindorf 4:277–278 · 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

Origen, Cels. (Against Celsus) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

Origen himself doubted that his Celsus was an Epicurean.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.36.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/36/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.36.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/36/2/).

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