Church History 6.25.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:270–271

καὶ ἐν τῷ πέμπτῳ δὲ τῶν εἰς τὸ κατὰ Ἰωάννην ἐξηγητικῶν ὁ αὐτὸς ταῦτα περὶ τῶν ἐπιστολῶν τῶν ἀποστόλων φησίν· “ὁ δὲ ἱκανωθεὶς διάκονος γεγενῆσθαι “διαθήκης, οὐ γράμματος, ἀλλὰ πνεύματος, “ Παῦλος, ὁ πεπληρωκὼς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ κύκλῳ μέχρι τοῦ Ἰλλυρικοῦ, οὐδὲ πάσαις “ἔγραψεν αἷς ἐδίδαξεν ἐκκλησίαις, ἀλλὰ καὶ αἷς ἔγρα- “ψεν, ὀλίγους στίχους ἐπέστειλε.

English · Claude translation

In the fifth book of his exegesis of the Gospel according to John the same writer says this about the letters of the apostles: “Paul, who was made sufficient to be a minister of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit, who fully preached the gospel from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum, did not write to all the churches he taught, and even to those he wrote to he sent only a few lines.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:270–271 · 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)

Scripture

2 Cor 3:6 · quotation, high confidence
Rom 15:19 · quotation, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Origen, Comm. Jo. 5 (Commentary on the Gospel of John) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Origen, Commentary on John, Book 5 (preserved only here; to 6.25.10), citing 2 Cor 3:6 and Rom 15:19.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.25.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/25/7/).