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Church History 2.1.14

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

Summary: Paul, the chosen vessel, was made an apostle by a revelation from Christ, not by men.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:47–48

ἐπὶ τούτοις Παῦλος, τὸ τῆς ἐκλογῆς σκεῦος, οὐκ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων οὐδὲ διʼ ἀνθρώπων, διʼ ἀποκαλύψεως δʼ αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ θεοῦ πατρὸς, τοῦ ἐγείραντος αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν, ἀπόστολος ἀναδείκνυται, διʼ ὀπτασίας καὶ τῆς κατὰ τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν οὐρανίου φωνῆς ἀξιωθεὶς τῆς κλήσεως.

English · Claude translation

After these things Paul, the chosen vessel, was appointed an apostle, not from men nor through men, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ himself and of God the Father who raised him from the dead, being thought worthy of the call through a vision and the heavenly voice at the revelation.

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Source
Dindorf 4:47–48 · 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

  • Allusions to Acts 9:15; Gal 1:1, 12; Acts 9:3–6.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.1.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/1/14/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.1.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/1/14/).

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