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Church History 3.23.2

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

Summary: Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria confirm that John lived until Trajan's time.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:108

ὅτι δὲ εἰς τούτους ἔτι τῷ βίῳ περιῆν ἀπόχρη διὰ δύο πιστώσασθαι τὸν λόγον μαρτύρων. πιστοὶ δʼ ἂν εἶεν οὗτοι, τῆς πρεσβεύσαντες ὀρθοδοξίας, εἰ δὴ τοιοῦτοι Εἰρηναῖος καὶ Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς.

English · Claude translation

That he was still alive up to these times it is enough to confirm by two witnesses. And they would be trustworthy, as ambassadors of orthodoxy, if such are Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria.

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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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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.23.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/23/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.23.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/23/2/).

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