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Church History 3.39.8

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

Summary: Eusebius will add other marvels Papias reports from tradition.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:134

καὶ ταῦτα δʼ ἡμῖν οὐκ εἰς τὸ ἄχρηστον εἰρήσθω. ἄξιον δὲ ταῖς ἀποδοθείσαις τοῦ Παπία φωναῖς προσάψαι λέξεις ἑτέρας αὐτοῦ, διʼ ὧν παράδοξά τινα ἱστορεῖ καὶ ἄλλα ὡσὰν ἐκ παραδόσεως εἰς αὐτὸν ἐλθόντα.

English · Claude translation

Let this too not have been said by us to no purpose. It is worth adding to the words of Papias already given other sayings of his, in which he relates some marvels and other things as having come to him from tradition.

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Source
Dindorf 4:134 · 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

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/8/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/8/).

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