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Church History 3.23.1

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

Summary: John, the beloved disciple, still lived in Asia, governing its churches after returning from exile.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:108

Ἐπὶ τούτοις κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν ἔτι τῷ βίῳ περιλειπόμενος αὐτὸς ἐκεῖνος, ὃν ἠγάπα ὁ Ἰησοῦς, ἀπόστολος ὁμοῦ καὶ εὐαγγελιστὴς Ἰωάννης τὰς αὐτόθι διεῖπεν ἐκκλησίας, ἀπὸ τῆς κατὰ τὴν νῆσον μετὰ τὴν Δομετιανοῦ τελευτὴν ἐπανελθὼν φυγῆς.

English · Claude translation

At this time there was still living in Asia that very one whom Jesus loved, John, apostle and evangelist, who governed the churches there, having returned from his banishment on the island after the death of Domitian.

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Source
Dindorf 4:108 · 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 John 13:23; 21:20.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/23/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/23/1/).

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