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Church History 6.25.5

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

Summary: Mark wrote second under Peter's guidance, as 1 Pet 5:13 calls him Peter's son.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:270

δεύτερον δὲ τὸ κατὰ Μάρκον, ὡς Πέτρος “σατο αὐτῷ, ποιήσαντα, ὃν καὶ υἱὸν ἐν τῇ “ἐπιστολῇ διὰ τούτων ὡμολόγησε φάσκων ἀσπάζεται “ ὑμᾶς ἡ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι συνεκλεκτὴ καὶ Μάρκος ὁ υἱός “ μουʼ.

English · Claude translation

second the one according to Mark, who composed it as Peter guided him, whom he also acknowledged as his son in the catholic letter, saying: ‘She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you, and so does Mark my son.’

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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)
Scripture
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Origen, Commentary on Matthew, citing 1 Pet 5:13. The verb “guided” (ὑφηγήσατο) is partly lost in the digital text.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/5/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/5/).

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