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Church History 1.12.3

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

Summary: Matthias, Joseph Barsabbas, and Thaddaeus are also said to have been among the Seventy.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:38

καὶ Ματθίαν δὲ τὸν ἀντὶ Ἰούδα τοῖς ἀποστόλοις συγκαταλεγέντα, τόν τε σὺν αὐτῷ τῇ ὁμοίᾳ ψήφῳ τιμηθέντα, τῆς αὐτῆς τῶν ἑβδομήκοντα κλήσεως ἠξιῶσθαι κατέχει λόγος. καὶ Θαδδαῖον δὲ ἕνα τῶν αὐτῶν εἶναί φασι, περὶ οὐ καὶ ἱστορίαν ἐλθοῦσαν εἰς ἡμὰς αὐτίκα μάλα ἐκθήσομαι.

English · Claude translation

Tradition also holds that Matthias, who was numbered with the apostles in place of Judas, and the one honoured together with him by the same vote, were thought worthy of the same calling of the seventy. They say that Thaddaeus too was one of them, about whom I shall shortly set out an account that has come down to us.

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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)
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Translation notes

  • Allusion to Acts 1:23–26.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/12/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/12/3/).

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