Church History 1.13.17

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

Summary: The Syriac account (quoted): Thaddaeus laid his hand on Abgar, who was healed at once.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:42

λέγει αὐτῷ Ἄβγαρος “κἀγὼ πεπίστευκα εἰς αὐτὸν καὶ εἰς τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ.’’ καὶ ὁ Θαδδαῖος “ διὰ τοῦτο, φησὶ, τίθημι τὴν χεῖρά μου ἐπὶ σὲ ἐν ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ. ” καῖ τοῦτο πράξαντος παραχρῆμα ἐθε- ραπεύθη τῆς νόσου καὶ τοῦ πάθους οὗ εἶχεν.

English · Claude translation

Abgar said to him, ‘I too have believed in him and in his Father.’ And Thaddaeus said, ‘Therefore I lay my hand on you in his name.’ And when he did this, Abgar was at once healed of the disease and suffering he had.

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Source

Dindorf 4:42 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Abgar Syriac acts of Thaddaeus (Correspondence of Jesus and Abgar) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Syriac Edessene account.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/17/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/17/).

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