Church History 6.25.13 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:271–272

τούτοις μεθʼ ἕτερα ἐπιφέρει λέγων ἐγὼ δὲ ἀποφαινόμενος εἴποιμʼ ἂν ὅτι τὰ μὲν νοήματα τοῦ ἀποστόλου ἐστὶν, ἡ δὲ φράσις καὶ ἡ σύν- “θεσις ἀπομνημονεύσαντός τινος τὰ ἀποστολικὰ, “ὡσπερεὶ σχολιογραφήσαντός τινος τὰ εἰρημένα ὑπὸ “τοῦ διδασκάλου. εἴ τις οὖν ἐκκλησία ἔχει τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ὡς Παύλου, αὕτη εὐδοκιμείτω καὶ “ἐπὶ τούτῳ οὐ γὰρ εἰκῆ οἱ ἀρχαῖοι ἄνδρες ὡς Παύ- “λου αὐτὴν παραδεδώκασι.

English · Claude translation

After other things he adds: “If I were to give my opinion, I would say that the thoughts are the apostle's, but the phrasing and composition are those of someone who remembered the apostle's teachings and, as it were, wrote notes on what his teacher had said. If then any church holds this letter as Paul's, let it be commended for this too; for it was not without reason that the men of old handed it down as Paul's.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:271–272 · 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.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): νοήματα τοὐ ἀποστόλου → νοήματα τοῦ ἀποστόλου.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/13/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/13/).