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Church History 1.10.7

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

Summary: Early in his ministry Jesus chose the Twelve, whom he called apostles, and sent out seventy others two by two.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:35

ἀλλὰ γὰρ ὁ σωτὴρ καὶ κύριος ἡμῶν οὐ μετὰ πλεῖστον τῆς καταρχῆς τοῦ κηρύγματος τοὺς δώδεκα ἀποστόλους ἀνακαλεῖται, οὓς καὶ μόνους τῶν λοιπῶν αὐτοῦ μαθητῶν κατά τι γέρας ἐξαίρετον ἀποστόλους ὠνόμασεν. καὶ αὖθις ἀναδείκνυσιν ἑτέρους ἑβδομήκοντα, οὓς καὶ αὐτοὺς ἀπέστειλεν ἀνὰ δύο δύο πρὸ προσάπου αὐτοῦ εἰς πάντα τόπον καὶ πόλιν οὗ ἤμελλεν αὐτὸς ἔρχεσθαι.

English · Claude translation

Now our Saviour and Lord, not long after the beginning of his preaching, calls the twelve apostles, whom alone of his other disciples he named apostles as a special privilege. And again he appoints seventy others, whom he also sent out two by two before his face into every place and city where he himself was about to come.

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Source
Dindorf 4:35 · 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.
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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)
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Translation notes

  • Allusion to Luke 6:13 and Luke 10:1.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/10/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/10/7/).

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