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Church History 3.18.2

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

Summary: Irenaeus, discussing the number of the Antichrist in Revelation, speaks of John.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:105

γράφων γέ τοι ὁ Εἰρήναιος περὶ τῆς ψήφου τῆς κατὰ τὸν ἀντίχριστον προσηγορίας φερομένης ἐν τῇ Ἰωάννου λεγομένῃ προσηγορίας αὐταῖς συλλαβαῖς ἐν πέμπτῳ τῶν πρὸς τὰς αἱρέσεις ταῦτα περὶ τοῦ Ἰωάννου φησίν

English · Claude translation

At any rate Irenaeus, writing about the number of the name ascribed to the Antichrist in the so-called Apocalypse of John, says this about John in these very words in the fifth book of Against Heresies:

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Source
Dindorf 4:105 · 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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 5.30.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The digital text repeats προσηγορίας for ἀποκαλύψει. Allusion to Rev 13:18.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/18/2/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/18/2/).

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