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Church History 2.22.6

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

Summary: Luke was with Paul when he wrote 2 Timothy but not at the first defence, which is why Acts ends where it does.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:75

νῦν μὲν οὖν ἐπὶ τῆς δευτέρας ἐπιστολῆς τῶν πρὸς Τιμό- θεον τὸν Λοῦκαν μόνον γράφοντι αὐτῷ συνεῖναι δηλοῖ, κατὰ δὲ τὴν προτέραν ἀπολογίαν οὐδὲ τοῦτον ὅθεν εἰκότως τὰς τῶν ἀποστόλων πράξεις ἐπʼ ἐκεῖνον ὁ Λουκᾶς περιέγραψε τὸν χρόνον, τὴν μέχρις ὅτε τῷ Παύλῳ συνῆν ἱστορίαν ὑφηγησάμενος.

English · Claude translation

Now in the second letter to Timothy he indicates that Luke alone was with him when he wrote, but at his first defence not even he; hence Luke naturally ended the Acts of the Apostles at that time, having narrated the history up to the time when he was with Paul.

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Source
Dindorf 4:75 · 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 2 Tim 4:11.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.22.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/22/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.22.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/22/6/).

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