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Church History 1.12.2

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

Summary: Clement's Outlines claim the Cephas whom Paul opposed at Antioch was one of the Seventy, not the apostle Peter.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:38

ἡ δʼ ἱστορία παρὰ Κλήμεντι κατὰ τὴν πέμπτην τῶν ‘Υποτυπώσων, ἐν ᾗ καὶ Κηφᾶν, περὶ οὗ φησιν ὁ Παῦλος ‘ὅτε δὲ ἦλθε Κηφᾶς εἰς ‘ Αντιόχειαν, κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτῷ ἀντέστην, ἴνα φησὶ γεγονέναι τῶν ἑβδομήκοντα μαθητῶν, ὁμώνυμον Πέτρῳ τυγχάνοντα τῷ ἀποστόλῳ.

English · Claude translation

The account is in Clement, in the fifth book of the Outlines, in which he also says that Cephas, about whom Paul says, “When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face,” was one of the seventy disciples, having the same name as Peter the apostle.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:38 · 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
  • Clement of Alexandria, Clement, Hyp. book 5 (Clement of Alexandria, Hypotyposes (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Gal 2:11. The source is Clement of Alexandria, Hypotyposes, book 5 (lost).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/12/2/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/12/2/).

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