Church History 3.24.2

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

Summary: John's Gospel is universally acknowledged; Eusebius explains why it is placed fourth.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:112

καὶ δὴ τὸ κατʼ αὐτὸν εὐαγγέλιον ταῖς ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν διεγνωσμένον ἐκκλησίαις πρῶτον ἀνωμολογήσθω. ὅτι γε μὴν εὐλόγως πρὸς τῶν ἀρχαίων ἐν τετάρτῃ μοίρᾳ τῶν ἄλλων τριῶν κατείλεκται, ταύτῃ ἂν γένοιτο δῆλον.

English · Claude translation

And first let the Gospel according to him, known to the churches under heaven, be acknowledged. That it has with good reason been placed by the ancients in the fourth place after the other three will become clear as follows.

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Source: Dindorf 4:112 · 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)
Topics: Scripture and canon

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.24.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/24/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.24.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/24/2/).

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