Church History 3.37.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Quadratus, a prophet, and many others of the first generation after the apostles built on their foundations and spread the gospel.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:130–131

Τῶν δὲ κατὰ τού- τους διαλαμψάντων καὶ Κοδρᾶτος ἦν, ὃν ἅμα ταῖς Φιλίππου θυγατράσι προφητικῷ χαρίσματι λόγος ἔχει διαπρέψαι. καὶ ἄλλοι δʼ ἐπὶ τούτοις πλείους εγνωρίζοντο κατὰ τούσδε, τὴν πρώτην τάξιν τῆς τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐπέχοντες διαδοχῆς· οἳ καὶ, ἅτε τηλικῶνδε ὄντες διαπρεπεῖς μαθηταὶ, τοὺς κατὰ πάντα τόπον τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν προκαταβληθέντας ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων θεμελίους ἐπῳκοδόμουν, αὔξοντες εἰς πλέον τὸ κήρυγμα καὶ τὰ σωτήρια σπέρματα τῆς τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλείας ἀνὰ πᾶσαν εἰς πλάτος ἐπισπείροντες τὴν οἰκουμένην.

English · Claude translation

Among those who were distinguished at this time was Quadratus, who, the account holds, excelled, together with the daughters of Philip, in the prophetic gift. And many others besides were known at this time, holding the first rank in the succession of the apostles; and they, as distinguished disciples of such great men, built on the foundations of the churches laid everywhere by the apostles, increasing the proclamation more and more and sowing the saving seeds of the kingdom of heaven far and wide throughout the whole world.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:130–131 · 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

Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.37.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/37/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.37.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/37/1/).