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Church History 1.12.4

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

Summary: Paul's list of resurrection appearances shows the disciples were more than seventy.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:38

καὶ τῶν ἑβδομήκοντα δὲ πλείους τοῦ σωτῆρος πεφηνέναι μαθητὰς εὕροις ἂν ἐπιτηρήσας, μάρτυρι χρώμενος τῷ Παύλῳ, μετὰ τὴν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἔγερσιν ὦφθαι αὐτὸν φήσαντι πρῶτον μὲν Κηφᾷ, ἔπειτα τοῖς δώδεκα, καὶ μετὰ τούτους ἐπάνω πεντακοσίοις ἀδελφοῖς ἐφάπαξ, ὧν τινὰς μὲν ἔφασκε κεκοιμῆσθαι, τοὺς πλείους δʼ ἔτι τῷ βίῳ, καθʼ ὃν καιρὸν αὐτῷ ταῦτα συνετάττετο, περιεῖναι.

English · Claude translation

And if you look carefully you will find that the Saviour's disciples were more than seventy, using Paul as a witness, who says that after his rising from the dead he appeared first to Cephas, then to the Twelve, and after these to more than five hundred brothers at once, some of whom, he said, had fallen asleep, but most were still alive at the time he was writing.

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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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusion to 1 Cor 15:5–6.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/12/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/12/4/).

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