Church History 6.24.1

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

Summary: Origen wrote the first five books on John at Alexandria; twenty-two books survived to Eusebius's time.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:268

Ταῦτα δὲ ἐκείνοις δέοι ἂν προσεπιθεῖναι δηλοῦντας ὡς ἐν μὲν τῷ ἕκτῳ τῶν εἰς τὸ κατὰ Ἰωάννην ἐξηγητικῶν σημαίνει τὰ πρότερα πέντε ἐπʼ Ἀλεξανδρείας ἔτʼ ὄντα αὐτὸν συντάξαι, τῆς δʼ εἰς τὸ πᾶν εὐαγγέλιον αὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο πραγματείας μόνοι δύο καὶ εἴκοσιν εἰς ἡμὰς περιῆλθον τόμοι.

English · Claude translation

To this it should be added that in the sixth book of his exegesis of the Gospel according to John he indicates that he composed the first five while still at Alexandria. Of this work on the whole Gospel only twenty-two volumes have come down to us.

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Source

Dindorf 4:268 · 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

Origen, Comm. Jo. 6.2 (Commentary on the Gospel of John) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

Origen, Commentary on John 6.2.8–12.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/24/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/24/1/).

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