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Church History 1.2.5

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

Summary: The psalmist likewise shows the Father commanding and the Word carrying out creation.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:5

ταύτην δὲ ἐγγυᾶται τὴν φωνὴν προφητῶν ἄλλος, ὧδέ πως ἐν ὕμνοις θεολογῶν‘ αὐτὸς εἶπε, καὶ ἐγεννήθησαν· αὐτὸς ἐνετείλατο, καὶ ἐκτίσθησαν, ” τὸν μὲν πατέρα καὶ ποιητὴν εἰσάγων ὡσὰν πανηγεμόνα βασιλικῷ νεύματι προστάττοντα, τὸν δὲ τούτῳ δευτερεύοντα θεῖον λόγον, οὐχ ἕτερον τοῦ πρὸς ἡμῶν κηρυττομένου, ταῖς πατρικαῖς ἐπιτάξεσιν ὑπουργοῦντα.

English · Claude translation

Another of the prophets confirms this saying, speaking of God in hymns in this way: “He spoke, and they were brought into being; he commanded, and they were created.” He presents the Father and Maker as ruler of all, commanding with a kingly nod, and the divine Word, second to him, none other than the one proclaimed by us, as carrying out the Father's commands.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:5 · 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
  • Ps 148:5 · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 33:9 (32:9 LXX) · allusion, medium confidence
Topics
Christology, Trinity

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Ps 148:5 (compare Ps 33:9, 32:9 LXX).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/5/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/5/).

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