Church History 1.13.22

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

Summary: The events are dated to the year 340 of the Edessene (Seleucid) era, and Eusebius explains why he included them.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:44

ἐπράχθη ταῦτα τεσσαρακοστῷ καὶ τριακοοιοστῷ ἔτει, ἃ καὶ οὐκ εἰς ἄχρηστον πρὸς λέξιν ἐκ τῆς Σύρων μεταβληθέντα φωνῆς ἐνταῦθά μοι κατὰ καιρὸν κείσθω.

English · Claude translation

These things were done in the three hundred and fortieth year. Let them, not uselessly translated word for word from the Syriac language, be set down here at the proper place.

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Source

Dindorf 4:44 · 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 (Correspondence of Jesus and Abgar) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The year 340 of the Seleucid era corresponds to AD 28/29.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/22/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/22/).

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