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Church History 7.25.12

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

Summary: The author is John, but which John is unclear; he never uses the Gospel's self-descriptions.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:328

ὅτι μὲν οὖν Ἰωάννης ἐστὶν ὁ ταῦτα γράφων ‘αὐτῷ λέγοντι πιστευτέον· ποῖος δὲ οὗτος ἄδηλον. “οὐ γὰρ εἶπεν ἑαυτὸν εἷναι, ὡς ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ πολ- “λαχοῦ, τὸν ἠγαπημένον ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου μαθητὴν, “οὐδὲ τὸν ἀναπεσόντα ἐπὶ τὸ στῆθος αὐτοῦ, οὐδὲ τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἰακώβου, οὐδὲ τὸν αὐτόπτην καὶ αὐ- “τήκοον τοῦ κυρίου γενόμενον.

English · Claude translation

That it is John who writes these things we must believe, since he says so; but which John is not clear. For he did not say that he was, as often in the Gospel, the disciple loved by the Lord, nor the one who leaned on his breast, nor the brother of James, nor the eyewitness and hearer of the Lord.

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Source
Dindorf 4:328 · 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
  • Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria; cf. John 13:23, 21:20, 24.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/12/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/12/).

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