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Church History 5.24.3

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

Summary: Polycrates: John, who leaned on the Lord's breast, is buried at Ephesus.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:230–231

ἔτι δὲ καὶ Ἰωάννης ὁ “ἐπὶ τὸ στῆθος τοῦ κυρίου ἀναπεσὼν, ὃς ἐγενήθη “ἱερεὺς τὸ πέταλον πεφορηκὼς, καὶ μάρτυς καὶ διδά- “σκαλος· οὗτος ἐν Ἐφέσῳ κεκοίμηται·

English · Claude translation

and moreover John, who leaned on the Lord's breast, who became a priest wearing the sacerdotal plate, both martyr and teacher; he has fallen asleep in Ephesus;

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Source
Dindorf 4:230–231 · 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
  • Polycrates of Ephesus, Polycrates (Polycrates of Ephesus, Letter to Victor) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Polycrates of Ephesus; cf. John 13:25. The “plate” (πέταλον) is the high priest's gold plate (Exod 28:36); the meaning here is disputed.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/3/).

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