Church History 7.25.10 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:327

εἶτα καὶ ἐπιστολὴν “γράφει· ῾Ἰωάννης ταῖς ἑπτὰ ἐκκλησίαις ταῖς ἐν τῇ “Ἀσίᾳ, χάρις ὑμίν καὶ εἰρήνη. ὁ δέ γε ῾στὴς οὐδὲ τῆς καθολικῆς ἐπιστολῆς προέγραψεν “ἑαυτοῦ τὸ ὄνομα, ἀλλὰ ἀπερίττως ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ “μυστηρίου τῆς θείας ἀποκαλύψεως ἤρξατο ‘ὃ ἦν ἀπʼ “ἀρχῆς, ὃ ἀκηκόαμεν, ὃ ἑωράκαμεν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς “ἡμῶν.’ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ γὰρ τῇ ἀποκαλύψει καὶ ὁ κύριος ῾τὸν Πέτρον ἐμακάρισεν εἰπών ῾μακάριος εἶ Σίμων ῾βὰρ Ἰωνᾶ, ὅτι σὰρξ καὶ αἷμα οὐκ ἀπεκάλυψέ ‘ἀλλʼ ὁ πατήρ μου ὁ οὐράνιος.’

English · Claude translation

Then he also writes a letter: ‘John to the seven churches in Asia, grace to you and peace.’ But the evangelist did not prefix his name even to the catholic letter, but began without superfluity from the very mystery of the divine revelation: ‘That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes.’ For on account of this revelation the Lord also blessed Peter, saying, ‘Blessed are you, Simon bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my heavenly Father.’

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:327 · 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

Rev 1:4 · quotation, high confidence
1 John 1:1 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 16:17 · quotation, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, citing Rev 1:4, 1 John 1:1, and Matt 16:17. The digital text repeats ἡμῶν and ὅτι, and the word “evangelist” is partly lost.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (repeated word in the digital text): ἡμῶν.’ ἡμῶν. → ἡμῶν.’; ὅτι ὅτι σὰρξ → ὅτι σὰρξ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/10/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/10/).