Church History 6.25.12

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

Summary: Yet its thoughts are worthy of the apostle.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:271

πάλιν τε αὖ ὅτι τὰ νοήματα τῆς ἐπιστολῆς “θαυμάσιά ἐστι, καὶ οὐ δεύτερα τῶν ἀποστολικῶν ὁμολογουμένων γραμμάτων, καὶ τοῦτο ἂν συμφήσαι “εἶναι ἀληθὲς πᾶς ὁ προσέχων τῇ ἀναγνώσει τῇ ἀπο- “ στολικῇ.”

English · Claude translation

Again, that the thoughts of the letter are wonderful and not inferior to the acknowledged writings of the apostle, this too everyone who attends to the reading of the apostle would agree to be true.”

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Source: Dindorf 4:271 · 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

Quotation from Origen, Homilies on Hebrews.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/12/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/12/).

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