Church History 7.25.26

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

Summary: The Apocalypse's author truly received revelation but writes ungrammatical, barbarous Greek.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:330

τοῦτον δὲ ἀποκάλυψιν μὲν “ἑωρακέναι, καὶ γνῶσιν εἰληφέναι καὶ προφητείαν, οὐκ ἀντερῶ, διάλεκτον μέντοι καὶ γλῶτταν οὐκ ἀκριβῶς ἑλληνίζουσαν αὐτοῦ βλέπω, ἀλλʼ ἰδιώ- ῾μασί τε βαρβαρικοῖς χρώμενον, καί που καὶ σολοι- “κίζοντα.

English · Claude translation

That this other one saw a revelation and received knowledge and prophecy I will not deny; but I see that his dialect and language are not accurate Greek, and that he uses barbarous idioms and in some places commits solecisms.

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Source

Dindorf 4:330 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.26 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/26/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.26 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/26/).

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