Church History 6.31.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:275

καὶ ἑτέρα δὲ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἀφρικανοῦ φέρεται ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς Ἀριστείδην, περὶ τῆς νομιζομένης διαφωνίας τῶν παρὰ Ματθαίῳ τε καὶ Λουκᾷ τοῦ Χριστοῦ γενεαλογιῶν, ἐν ἡ σαφέστατα τὴν τῶν εὐαγγελιστῶν συμφωνίαν παρίστησιν ἐξ ἱστορίας εἰς αὐτὸν κατελθούσης, ἣν κατὰ καιρὸν ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ τῆς μετὰ χεῖρας ὑποθέσεως προλαβὼν ἐξεθέμην.

English · Claude translation

Another letter of the same Africanus is extant, to Aristides, on the supposed disagreement between the genealogies of Christ in Matthew and Luke, in which he very clearly establishes the agreement of the evangelists from a story that came down to him, which I anticipated and set out in its place in the first book of the present work.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:275 · 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

Matt 1:1 · allusion, medium confidence
Luke 3:23 · allusion, medium confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Julius Africanus (Julius Africanus (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

See Church History 1.7.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray character in the digital text): Ἀριστείδην, q περὶ → Ἀριστείδην, περὶ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.31.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/31/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.31.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/31/3/).