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Church History 7.25.18

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

Summary: The Gospel of John and 1 John open with closely parallel words.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:329

συνᾴδουσι μὲν γὰρ ἀλλήλοις τὸ εὐαγγέλιον καὶ ἡ ἐπιστολὴ, ὁμοίως τε ἄρχονται. τὸ μέν φησιν· ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, ἡ δὲ, ὃ ἦν ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς. τὸ μέν φησι· καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν καὶ ἐθεασάμεθα τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, δόξαν ὡς μονογενοῦς παρὰ πατρός· ἡ δὲ τὰ αὐτὰ σμικρῷ παρηλλαγμένα· ὃ ἀκηκόαμεν, ὃ ἑωράκαμεν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ἡμῶν, ὃ ἐθεασάμεθα, καὶ αἱ χεῖρες ἡμῶν ἐψηλάφησαν, περὶ τοῦ λόγου τῆς ζωῆς, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἐφανερώθη.

English · Claude translation

For the Gospel and the letter agree with each other and begin alike. The one says, ‘In the beginning was the Word’; the other, ‘That which was from the beginning.’ The one says, ‘And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only-begotten from the Father’; the other says the same with a slight change: ‘That which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have beheld, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life; and the life was manifested.’

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:329 · 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
Extrabiblical texts
  • Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, citing John 1:1, 1:14, and 1 John 1:1–2.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/18/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/18/).

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