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Church History 6.16.3

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

Summary: In the Psalms the Hexapla had fifth, sixth, and seventh versions, one found in a jar at Jericho.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:260

ἔν γε μὴν τοῖς ἑξαπλοῖς τῶν ψαλμῶν μετὰ τὰς ἐπισήμους τέσσαρας ἐκδόσεις οὐ μόνον πέμπτην, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἕκτην καὶ ἑβδόμην παραθεὶς ἑρμηνείαν, ἐπὶ μιᾶς αὖθις σεσημείωται ὡς ἐν Ἱεριχοῖ ηὑρημένης ἐν πίθῳ, κατὰ τοὺς χρόνους Ἀντωνίνου τοῦ υἱοῦ Σεβήρου.

English · Claude translation

In the Hexapla of the Psalms, after the four well-known editions, he placed beside them not only a fifth but also a sixth and a seventh translation, and noted of one of them again that it had been found in a jar at Jericho in the time of Antoninus son of Severus.

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Source
Dindorf 4:260 · 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)
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Antoninus son of Severus” is Caracalla (211–217).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.16.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/16/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.16.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/16/3/).

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