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Church History 6.12.3

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

Summary: Serapion: we receive the apostles as Christ but reject writings forged in their names.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:254–255

“ἡμεῖς γὰρ, ἀδελφοὶ, καὶ “Πέτρον καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἀποστόλους ἀποδεχόμεθα “ὡς Χριστὸν, τὰ δὲ ὀνόματι αὐτῶν ψευδεπίγραφα ὡς “ἔμπειροι παραιτούμεθα, γινώσκοντες ὅτι τὰ τοιαῦτα “οὐ παρελάβομεν.

English · Claude translation

“For we, brothers, receive both Peter and the other apostles as Christ; but the writings falsely ascribed to their names we, as experienced men, reject, knowing that such things we did not receive.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:254–255 · 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
  • Gos. Pet. (Gospel of Peter) · allusion, high confidence
  • Serapion of Antioch, Serapion (Serapion of Antioch (letters)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Serapion, On the Gospel of Peter (to 6.12.6).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/12/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/12/3/).

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