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Church History 4.22.8

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

Summary: Hegesippus used the Gospel of the Hebrews and the Syriac and Hebrew, suggesting he was a Jewish Christian.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:171–172

καὶ ἕτερα δὲ πλεῖστα γράφει, ὧν ἐκ μέρους ἤδη πρότερον ἐμνημονεύσαμεν, οἰκείως τοῖς καιροῖς τὰς ἱστορίας παραθέμενοι. ἔκ τε τοῦ καθʼ Ἑβραίους εὐαγγελίου καὶ τοῦ Συριακοῦ καὶ ἰδίως ἐκ τῆς Ἑβραΐδος διαλέκτου τινὰ τίθησιν, ἐμφαίνων ἐξ Ἑβραίων ἑαυτὸν πεπιστευκέναι, καὶ ἄλλα δὲ ὡσὰν ἐξ Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀγράφου παραδόσεως μνημονεύει.

English · Claude translation

He writes very many other things too, some of which we have already mentioned, setting the accounts in their proper times. And he sets down some things from the Gospel according to the Hebrews and from the Syriac, and particularly from the Hebrew language, showing that he was a believer from among the Hebrews; and he mentions other things as from unwritten Jewish tradition.

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Source
Dindorf 4:171–172 · 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
  • Hegesippus (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence
  • Gos. Heb. (Gospel of the Hebrews) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • “The Syriac” may refer to a Syriac (Aramaic) Gospel; the meaning is uncertain.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.22.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/22/8/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.22.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/22/8/).

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