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Church History 3.31.5

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

Summary: Acts mentions Philip the evangelist's four prophesying daughters at Caesarea.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:123

ταῦτα μὲν οὗτος. ὁ δὲ Λουκᾶς ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσι τῶν ἀποστόλων τῶν Φιλίππου θυγατέρων ἐν Καισαρείᾳ τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἅμα τῷ πατρὶ τότε διατριβουσῶν, προφητικοῦ τε χαρίσματος ἠξιωμένων, μνημονεύει κατὰ λέξιν ὧδέ πως λέγων “ἤλθομεν εἰς Και- “σάρειαν, καὶ εἰσελθόντες εἰς τὸν οἶκον Φιλίππου “τοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ ὄντος ἐκ τῶν ἑπτὰ ἐμείναμεν παρ αὐτῷ. τούτῳ δὲ ἤσαν παρθένοι θυγατέρες προφητεύουσαι τέσσαρες.”

English · Claude translation

So much he says. And Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, mentions the daughters of Philip, then living at Caesarea in Judea with their father and thought worthy of the gift of prophecy, speaking word for word as follows: “We came to Caesarea, and entering the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we stayed with him. He had four virgin daughters who prophesied.”

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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)
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Translation notes

  • The quotation is Acts 21:8–9.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.31.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/31/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.31.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/31/5/).

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