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Church History 3.20.6

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): once released, they led the churches as confessors and relatives of the Lord until Trajan's time.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:107

τοὺς δὲ ἀπολυθέντας ἡγήσασθαι τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν, ὡσὰν δὴ μάρτυρας ὁμοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ γένους ὄντας τοῦ κυρίου, γενομένης τε εἰρήνης μέχρι Τραϊανοῦ παραμεῖναι αὐτοὺς τῷ βίῳ.”

English · Claude translation

And those who had been released led the churches, as being both witnesses and of the Lord's family; and when peace came, they remained alive until Trajan.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:107 · 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
  • Hegesippus (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Church office

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Hegesippus.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.20.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/20/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.20.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/20/6/).

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