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Church History 3.39.17

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

Summary: Papias quotes 1 John and 1 Peter and tells a story of a sinful woman also found in the Gospel of the Hebrews.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:136

κέχρηται δʼ αὐτὸς μαρτυρίαις ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰωάννου προτέρας ἐπιστολῆς καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Πέτρου ὁμοίως. ἐκτέθειται δὲ καὶ ἄλλην ἱστορίαν περὶ γυναικὸς ἐπὶ πολλαῖ ἁμαρτίαις διαβληθείσης ἐπὶ τοῦ κυρίου, ἣν τὸ κατ Ἑβραίους εὐαγγἐλιον περιέχει. καὶ ταῦτα δʼ ἡμῖν ἀναγκαίως πρὸς τοῖς ἐκτεθεῖσιν ἐπιτετηρήσθω.

English · Claude translation

He himself uses testimonies from the former letter of John and likewise from that of Peter. And he has set out another story about a woman accused before the Lord of many sins, which the Gospel according to the Hebrews contains. Let these things too be necessarily noted by us in addition to what has been set out.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:136 · 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
  • Gos. Heb. (Gospel of the Hebrews) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • The story may be related to the account of the woman taken in adultery (John 7:53–8:11).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/17/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/17/).

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