Sophia Scriptura

Church History 5.8.14

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

Summary: All the translations agreed word for word, showing that the Greek Scriptures were translated by divine inspiration.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:209

συνελθόντων δὲ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ παρὰ τῷ Πτολεμαίῳ, καὶ “συναντιβαλλόντων ἑκάστου τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἑρμηνείαν, “ὁ μὲν θεὸς ἐδοξάσθη, αἶ δὲ γραφαὶ ὄντως “ἐγνώσθησαν, τῶν πάντων τὰ αὐτὰ ταῖς αὐταῖς λἐ- “ξεσι καὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς ὀνόμασιν ἀναγορευσάντων ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς μέχρι τέλους, ὥστε καὶ τὰ παρόντα ἔθνη “γνὠναι ὅτι κατʼ ἐπίπνοιαν τοῦ θεοῦ εἰσιν ἡρμηνευμέναι αἶ γραφαί.

English · Claude translation

When they came together before Ptolemy and compared each one's translation, God was glorified and the Scriptures were recognized as truly divine, for all had rendered the same things in the same words and the same names from beginning to end, so that even the Gentiles present knew that the Scriptures had been translated by the inspiration of God.

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Source
Dindorf 4:209 · 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
  • Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 3.21.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.21.2. The word “divine” (θεῖαι) seems lost in the digital text and is supplied from the sense.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.8.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/8/14/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.8.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/8/14/).

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