Church History 7.25.21

Summary: The Gospel and 1 John share distinctive vocabulary: life, light, truth, love, the world, antichrist, Father and Son.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:329–330

ὁ δὲ προσεχῶς ἐντυγχάνων εὑρήσει ἐν ἑκατέρῳ πολλὴν τὴν ζωὴν, πολὺ τὸ φῶς, ἀποτροπὴν τοῦ σκότους, συνεχῆ τὴν ἀλήθειαν, τὴν χάριν, τὴν χαρὰν, τὴν σάρκα καὶ τὸ αἷμα τοῦ κυρίου, τὴν κρίσιν, τὴν ἄφεσιν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν, τὴν πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀγάπην τοῦ θεοῦ, τὴν πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἡμὰς ἀγάπης ἐντολὴν, ὡς πάσας δεῖ φυλάσσειν τὰς ἐντολάς· ὁ ἔλεγχος τοῦ κόσμου, τοῦ διαβόλου, τοῦ ἀντιχρίστου, ἡ ἐπαγγε- “λία τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, ἡ υἱοθεσία τοῦ θεοῦ, ἡ “διόλου πίστις ἡμῶν ἀπαιτουμένη, ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ὁ υἱὸς πανταχοῦ· καὶ ὅλως διὰ πάντων χαρακτηρί- “ζοντας ἕνα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν συνορᾶν τοῦ τε εὐαγγε- “λίου καὶ τῆς ἐπιστολῆς χρῶτα πρόκειται.

English · Claude translation

The attentive reader will find in each much ‘life,’ much ‘light,’ the turning from ‘darkness,’ constantly ‘truth,’ ‘grace,’ ‘joy,’ the ‘flesh and blood’ of the Lord, ‘judgment,’ ‘forgiveness of sins,’ God's ‘love’ toward us, the ‘commandment’ of ‘love’ toward one another, that we must keep all the ‘commandments’; the conviction of the ‘world,’ of the ‘devil,’ of the ‘antichrist’; the promise of the ‘Holy Spirit,’ the adoption of God, the ‘faith’ required of us throughout, the ‘Father’ and the ‘Son’ everywhere. In short, it is possible to see one and the same complexion in the Gospel and the letter, characterizing them throughout.

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Source

Dindorf 4:329–330 · 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

Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.21 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/21/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.21 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/21/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:329–330

English · Claude translation

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