Church History 3.31.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:122–123

τοῦ δὲ Ἰωάννου τὰ μὲν τοῦ χρόνου ἤδη πως εἴρηται, τὸ δέ γε τοῦ σκηνώματος αὐτοῦ χωρίον ἐξ ἐπιστολῆς Πολυκράτους (τῆς δʼ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ παροικίας ἐπίσκοπος οὗτος ἦν) ἐπιδείκνυται, ἣν Οὐίκτορι ‘Ρωμαίων ἐπισκόπῳ γράφων ὁμοῦ τε αὐτοῦ καὶ Φιλίππου μνημονεύει τοῦ ἀποστόλου τῶν τε τούτου θυγατέρων ὧδέ πως “καὶ γὰρ καὶ κατὰ τὴν “Ἀσίαν μεγάλα στοιχεῖα κεκοίμηται, ἅτινα ἀναστή- “σεται τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ κυρίου, “ἐν ᾖ ἔρχεται μετὰ δόξης ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἀναζητήσει “πάντας τοὺς ἁγίους, Φίλιππον τὸν τῶν δώδεκα ἀποστόλων, ὃς κεκοίμηται ἐν Ἱεραπόλει, καὶ δύο θυγατέρες αὐτοῦ γεγηρακυῖαι παρθένοι, καὶ ἡ ἑτέρα ‘αὐτοῦ θυγάτηρ ἐν ἁγίῳ πνεύματι πολιτευσαμένη, ἣ ἐν Ἐφέσω ἀναπαύεται,

English · Claude translation

As for John, the time has already been stated in some way; and the place of his body is shown from a letter of Polycrates (he was bishop of the community in Ephesus), which he wrote to Victor, bishop of the Romans, mentioning both him and Philip the apostle and his daughters as follows: “For in Asia too great luminaries have fallen asleep, who will rise again on the last day of the Lord's coming, when he comes with glory from heaven and will seek out all the saints: Philip, one of the twelve apostles, who has fallen asleep in Hierapolis, and two of his daughters who grew old as virgins, and his other daughter, who lived in the Holy Spirit and rests at Ephesus;

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:122–123 · 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)

Scripture

Acts 21:8–9 · allusion, medium confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Polycrates of Ephesus, Polycrates Letter to Victor (Polycrates of Ephesus, Letter to Victor) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation (3.31.2–3) is from Polycrates' Letter to Victor (repeated at 5.24.2–3). Polycrates appears to confuse Philip the apostle with Philip the evangelist (Acts 21:8–9).

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.31.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/31/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.31.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/31/2/).