Church History 1.13.7

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

Summary: Abgar (quoted) concludes that Jesus is either God or the Son of God.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:40

καὶ ταῦτα πάντα ἀκούσας περὶ σοῦ κατὰ “νοῦν ἐθέμην τὸ ἕτερον τῶν δύο, ἢ ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ θεὸς “καὶ καταβὰς ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ποιεῖς ταῦτα, ἢ υἱὸς “εἶ τοῦ θεοῦ ποιῶν ταῦτα.

English · Claude translation

And having heard all these things about you, I concluded one of two things: either that you are God and have come down from heaven and do these things, or that you are the Son of God who does these things.

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Source

Dindorf 4:40 · 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 Abgar's letter (Correspondence of Jesus and Abgar) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Abgar correspondence.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.13.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/13/7/).

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