Church History 7.25.9 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:327

εἷθʼ ὑποβὰς ταῦτα λέγει πάλιν “’Ιωάννης δὲ οὐδαμοῦ “οὐδὲ ὡς περὶ ἑαυτοῦ οὐδὲ ὡς περὶ ἑτέρου· ὁ δὲ τὴν Ἀποκάλυψιν γράψας εὐθύς τε ἐν ἀρχῇ ἑαυτὸν προ- ‘τάσσει· Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἣν “δεῖξαι τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ ἐν τάχει, καὶ ἐσήμανεν ἀπο- “στείλας διὰ τοῦ ἀγγέλου αὐτοῦ τῷ δούλῳ αὐτοῦ Ἰω- “άννῃ, ὃς ἐμαρτύρησε τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τὴν μαρ- ‘τυρίαν αὐτοῦ, ὅσα εἶδεν.

English · Claude translation

Then further on he says again: “John nowhere speaks as of himself or as of another; but the one who wrote the Apocalypse puts himself forward immediately at the beginning: ‘The revelation of Jesus Christ, which he gave him to show to his servants quickly; and he signified it, sending it by his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to his testimony, to all that he saw.’

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:327 · 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

Rev 1:1 · quotation, high confidence

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, citing Rev 1:1–2. A few words (“which God gave him”) are lost in the digital text.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (missing iota subscript in the digital text): ἐν ἀρχὴ ἑαυτὸν → ἐν ἀρχῇ ἑαυτὸν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/9/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/9/).