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Church History 3.38.5

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

Summary: Later lengthy works with dialogues of Peter and Apion are wrongly ascribed to Clement.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:132–133

ἤδη δὲ καὶ ἕτερα πολυεπῆ καὶ μακρὰ συγγράμματα ὡς τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐχθὲς καὶ πρώην τινὲς προήγαγον, Πέτρου δὴ καὶ Ἀπίωνος διαλόγους περιέχοντα, ὧν οὐδʼ ὅλως μνήμη τις παρὰ τοῖς παλαιοῖς φέρεται. οὐδὲ γὰρ καθαρὸν τῆς ἀποστολικῆς ὀρθοδοξίας ἀποσώζει τὸν χαρακτῆρα. ἡ μὲν οὖν τοῦ Κλήμεντος ὁμολογουμένη γραφὴ πρόδηλος. εἴρηται δὲ καὶ τὰ Ἰγνατίου καὶ Πολυκάρπου.

English · Claude translation

And some have recently brought forward other wordy and lengthy works as his, containing dialogues of Peter and Apion, of which there is no mention at all among the ancients; for they do not preserve the pure character of apostolic orthodoxy. The acknowledged writing of Clement, then, is plain. And what concerns Ignatius and Polycarp has also been told.

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Source
Dindorf 4:132–133 · 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, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The works are the Pseudo-Clementine writings (Homilies and Recognitions).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.38.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/38/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.38.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/38/5/).

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