Church History 3.23.4

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

Summary: Irenaeus (quoted): the church of Ephesus, founded by Paul and home of John, witnesses to apostolic tradition.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:108–109

καὶ έν τρίτῳ δὲ τῆς αὐτῆς ὑπο- θέσεως ταὐτὸ τοῦτο δηλοῖ διὰ τούτων “ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ “ἐν Ἐφέσῳ ἐκκλησία ὑπὸ Παύλου μὲν τεθεμελιωμένη, “Ἰωάννου δὲ παραμείναντος αὐτοῖς μέχρι τῶν Τραϊ- “ανοῦ χρόνων, μάρτυς ἀληθής ἐστι τῆς τῶν ἀπο- “στόλων παραδόσεως.”

English · Claude translation

And in the third book of the same work he shows the same thing in these words: “But the church in Ephesus too, founded by Paul, with John remaining among them until the times of Trajan, is a true witness of the tradition of the apostles.”

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Source

Dindorf 4:108–109 · 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

Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 3.3.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Irenaeus, Haer. 3.3.4.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/23/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/23/4/).

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