Church History 6.14.3

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

Summary: Paul omitted his name so as not to repel Hebrews prejudiced against him.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:257

μὴ προγεγράφθαι δὲ τὸ “Παῦλος ἀπόστολος”, εἰκότως· Ἑβραίοις γὰρ, φησὶν, ἐπιστέλλων, πρόληψιν εἰληφόσι κατʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὑποπτεύουσιν αὐτὸν, συνετῶς πάνυ οὐκ ἐν ἀρχῇ ἀπέτρεψεν αὐτοὺς τὸ ὄνομα θείς

English · Claude translation

And that the words “Paul an apostle” were naturally not prefixed; for, he says, writing to Hebrews who had formed a prejudice against him and were suspicious of him, he very wisely did not repel them at the beginning by putting his name.

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Source

Dindorf 4:257 · 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.

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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

Clement of Alexandria, Clement, Hyp. (Clement of Alexandria, Hypotyposes (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

Report of Clement, Outlines.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.14.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/14/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.14.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/14/3/).

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