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Church History 3.39.1

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

Summary: Papias wrote five books of Expositions of the Lord's Oracles; Irenaeus (quoted) calls him a hearer of John and companion of Polycarp.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:133

Τοῦ δὲ Παπία συγγράμματα πέντε τὸν ἀριθμὸν φέρεται, ἃ καὶ ἐπιγέγραπται Λογίων κυριακῶν ἐξηγήσεις. τούτων καὶ Εἰρήναιος ὡς μόνων αὐτῷ γραφέντων μνημονεύει ὧδέ πως λέγων “ταῦτα δὲ καὶ Παπίας ὁ Ἰωάννου μὲν “ ἀκουστὴς, Πολυκάρπου δὲ ἑταῖρος γεγονὼς, ἀρχαῖος “ἀνὴρ, ἐγγράφως ἐπιμαρτυρεῖ ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ τῶν “ ἑαυτοῦ βίβλων. ἔστι γὰρ αὐτῷ πέντε βιβλία συν- “τεταγμἐνα.’’ καὶ ὁ μὲν Εἰρήναιος ταῦτα.

English · Claude translation

Five books of Papias are extant, which are entitled Expositions of the Lord's Oracles. Irenaeus too mentions these as the only ones written by him, speaking thus: “These things Papias, who was a hearer of John and a companion of Polycarp, a man of old, attests in writing in the fourth of his books; for he composed five books.” So much Irenaeus.

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Source
Dindorf 4:133 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Papias (Papias (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence
  • Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 5.33.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Irenaeus, Haer. 5.33.4.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/1/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/1/).

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