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Church History 3.31.4

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

Summary: Proclus (quoted in Gaius's dialogue): Philip's four prophetess daughters and their father are buried at Hierapolis.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:123

καὶ ἐν τῷ Γαΐου δὲ, οὑ μικρῷ πρόσθεν ἐμνήσθημεν, διαλόγῳ Πρόκλος, πρὸς ὃν ἐποιεῖτο τὴν ζήτησιν, περὶ τῆς Φιλίππου καὶ τῶν θυγατέρων αὐτοῦ τελευτῆς συνᾴδων τοῖς ἐκτεθεῖσιν οὕτω φησίν μετὰ τοῦτον δὲ προφήτιδες τέσσαρες αἱ Φιλίππου γεγένηνται ἐν Ἱεραπόλει τῇ κατὰ τὴν Ἀσέαν· ὁ τά- “φος αὐτῶν έστιν ἐκεῖ καὶ ὁ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῶν. ”

English · Claude translation

And in the dialogue of Gaius, whom we mentioned a little before, Proclus, against whom he was disputing, agreeing with what has been set out about the death of Philip and his daughters, says this: “After him the four prophetesses, the daughters of Philip, were at Hierapolis in Asia. Their tomb is there, and that of their father.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:123 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Gaius of Rome, Gaius, Dial. Procl. (Gaius of Rome, Gaius, Dialogue with Proclus (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Gaius, Dialogue with Proclus; Proclus was a Montanist leader.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.31.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/31/4/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.31.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/31/4/).

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