Church History 6.25.3

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

Summary: In his Commentary on Matthew, Origen acknowledges only four Gospels.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:270

ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἐν τῷ προειρημένῳ τίθησι συγγράμματι· ἐν δὲ τῷ πρώτῳ τῶν εἰς τὸ κατὰ Ματθαῖον, τὸν ἐκκλησιαστικὸν φυλάττων κανόνα, μόνα τέσσαρα εἰδέναι εὐαγγέλια μαρτύρεται, ὧδέ πως γράφων

English · Claude translation

This he sets out in the work mentioned. In the first book of those on the Gospel according to Matthew, keeping the ecclesiastical canon, he testifies that he knows only four Gospels, writing somewhat thus:

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Source: Dindorf 4:270 · 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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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/3/).

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