Church History 3.38.2

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

Summary: Hebrews is counted with Paul's letters; some say Luke or Clement translated it from Paul's Hebrew.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:132

ὅθεν δὴ καὶ εἰκότως ἔδοξεν αὐτὸ τοῖς λοιποῖς ἐγκαταλεχθῆναι γράμμασι τοῦ ἀποστόλου. Ἑβραίοις γὰρ διὰ τῆς πατρίου γλώττης ἐγγράφως ὡμιληκότος τοῦ Παύλου οἱ μὲν τὸν εὐαγγελιστὴν Λουκᾶν, οἱ δὲ τὸν Κλήμεντα τοῦτον αὐτὸν ἑρμηνεῦσαι λέγουσι τὴν γραφήν.

English · Claude translation

Hence it has reasonably seemed right to count it with the other writings of the apostle. For since Paul had addressed the Hebrews in writing in their native tongue, some say that the evangelist Luke, others that this very Clement, translated the writing.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:132 · 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: Scripture and canon

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Digital text corrected (unread letter in the digital text; reading certain from context): τοῦτο(??) → τοῦτον.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.38.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/38/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.38.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/38/2/).

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