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Church History 3.39.12

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

Summary: Papias taught an earthly thousand-year kingdom after the resurrection, which Eusebius thinks misreads the apostles' figurative language.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:135

ἐν οἷς καὶ χιλιάδα τινά φησιν ἐτῶν ἔσεσθαι μετὰ τὴν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν, σωματικῶς τῆς Χριστοῦ βασιλείας ἐπὶ ταυτησὶ τῆς γῆς ὑποστησομένης. ἃ καὶ ἡγοῦμαι τὰς ἀποστολικὰς παρεκδεξάμενον διηγήσεις ὑπολαβεῖν, τὰ ἐν ὑποδείγμασι πρὸς αὐτῶν μυστικῶς εἰρημένα μὴ συνεωρακότα.

English · Claude translation

Among these he says that there will be a thousand years after the resurrection from the dead, when the kingdom of Christ will be established bodily on this earth. I think he supposed this by misunderstanding the apostolic accounts, not perceiving what had been said by them mystically in figures.

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Source
Dindorf 4:135 · 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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Papias (Papias (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Compare Rev 20:4–6.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/12/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/12/).

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