Church History 3.23.12

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

Summary: Clement (quoted): John returned and asked the bishop to give back the deposit entrusted to him.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:110

χρόνος ἐν “μέβῳ, καί τίνος έπιπεσούης χρείας άνακαλοῦσι τὸν “ ‘Ιωάννην. ό δε έπε ι τά ἄλλα ὧν χάριν ἧκε κατεβτή- “sατο, ἄγε δὴ, ἔφη, ὧ έπίσκοπε, τὴν παρακαταθή- “κην áπόδος ήμῖν, ἥν ἐγώ τε καὶ ο Χριστός σοι πα- "ρακατεθέμεθα έπὶ τἠς έκκλησίας, ἧς προκαδίζῃ, "μάρτνρος.

English · Claude translation

Time passed, and some need arising, they called for John. And he, when he had set in order the other things for which he had come, said, ‘Come, bishop, return to us the deposit which I and Christ entrusted to you, with the church over which you preside as witness.’

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Source

Dindorf 4:110 · 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

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 42.8 (Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved?) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Clement, Quis div. 42.8.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.23.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/23/12/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.23.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/23/12/).

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