Church History 6.16.4

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

Summary: Origen arranged the Hebrew and Greek versions in parallel columns in the Hexapla, and four Greek versions in the Tetrapla.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:260

ταύτας δὲ ἁπάσας ἐπὶ ταὐτὸν συναγαγὼν, διελών τε πρὸς κῶλον, καὶ ἀντιπαραθεὶς ἀλλήλαις μετὰ καὶ αὐτῆς τῆς Ἑβραίων σημειώσεως, τὰ τῶν λεγομένων ἡμῖν ἑξαπλῶν ἀντίγραφα καταλέλοιπεν, ἰδίως τὴν Ἀκύλου καὶ Συμμάχου καὶ Θεοδοτίωνος ἔκδοσιν ἅμα τῇ τῶν ἑβδομήκοντα ἐν τοῖς τετραπλοῖς ἐπικατασκευάσας.

English · Claude translation

Bringing all these together, dividing them into clauses and setting them side by side, together with the Hebrew text itself, he left us the copies of the so-called Hexapla; and he prepared separately the edition of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion together with that of the Seventy in the Tetrapla.

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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

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Digital text corrected (word split in the digital text): ἐπικατα σκευάσας → ἐπικατασκευάσας.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.16.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/16/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.16.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/16/4/).

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