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Church History 3.23.5

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

Summary: Clement tells a profitable story about John in Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved?

Greek text · Dindorf 4:109

ὁ δὲ Κλήμης ὁμοῦ καὶ τὸν χρόνον ἐπισημηνάμενος καὶ ἱστορίαν ἀναγκαιοτάτην οἷς τὰ καλὰ καὶ ἐπωφελῆ φίλον ἀκούειν προστίθησιν ἐν ᾧ “τίς ὁ σωζόμενος πλούσιος” ἐπέγραψεν αὐτοῦ συγγράμματι. λαβὼν δὲ ἀνάγνωθι ὧδέ πως ἔχουσαν καὶ αὐτοῦ τὴν γραφήν

English · Claude translation

And Clement, indicating the time as well, adds a story most necessary for those who like to hear what is good and profitable, in his work entitled Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? Take and read his writing, which runs thus:

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Source
Dindorf 4:109 · 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
  • Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 42 (Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved?) · allusion, high confidence

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.23.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/23/5/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.23.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/23/5/).

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