Church History 3.25.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:116

ἐν τοῖς νόθοις κατατετάχθω καὶ τῶν Παύλου πράξεων ἡ γραφὴ, ὅ τε λεγόμενος Ποιμὴν, καὶ ἡ Ἀποκάλυψις Πέτρου, καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ἡ φερομένη Βαρνάβα ἐπιστολὴ, καὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων αἱ λεγόμεναι διδαχαί· ἔτι τε, ὡς ἔφην, ἡ Ἰωάννου Ἀποκάλυψις, εἰ φανείη, ἥν τινες, ὡς ἔφην, ἀθετοῦσιν, ἕτεροι δὲ ἐγκρίνουσι τοῖς ὁμολογουμένοις.

English · Claude translation

Among the spurious let there be placed the writing of the Acts of Paul, the so-called Shepherd, and the Apocalypse of Peter, and besides these the extant Letter of Barnabas and the so-called Teachings of the Apostles; and further, as I said, the Apocalypse of John, if it seems right, which some, as I said, reject, but others count among the acknowledged books.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:116 · 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

Acts Paul (Acts of Paul) · allusion, high confidence
Herm. Vis. (Shepherd of Hermas: Visions) · allusion, high confidence
Apoc. Pet. (Apocalypse of Peter) · allusion, high confidence
Barn. (Epistle of Barnabas) · allusion, high confidence
Did. (Didache) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

νόθος (“spurious”) here means not genuinely apostolic, though orthodox and used in churches, as distinct from heretical forgeries (3.25.6–7).

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.25.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/25/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.25.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/25/4/).