Church History 1.4.13 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Abraham, justified by faith and serving God by virtue rather than the later law, was the one in whom the nations would be blessed; this is fulfilled in Christians.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:19

τούτῳ δὲ καὶ ἐπιστῆσαι εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐκπεπληρωμένῳ πάρεστι. πίστει μὲν γὰρ ἐκεῖνος τῇ εἰς τὸν ὀφθέντα αὐτῷ τοῦ θεοῦ λόγον τὸν Χριστὸν δεδικαίωτο, πατρῴας μὲν ἀποστὰς δεισιδαιμονίας καὶ πλάνης βίου προτέρας, ἔνα δὲ τὸν ἐπὶ πάντων ὁμο- λογήσας θεὸν, καὶ τοῦτον ἔργοις ἀρετῆς, οὐχὶ δὲ θρησκείᾳ νόμου τοῦ μετὰ ταῦτα Μωυσέως θεραπεύσας. τοιούτῳ τε ὄντι εἴρητο ὅτι δὴ πᾶσαι αἱ φυλαὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ἐν αὐτῷ εὐλογηθήσονται.

English · Claude translation

We may observe that this has been fulfilled in us. For he was justified by faith in the Word of God, the Christ, who appeared to him, having turned away from the superstition of his fathers and the error of his former life, having confessed the one God over all and served him by works of virtue, not by the worship of the law of Moses that came later. And to him, being such, it was said that all the tribes of the earth and all the nations would be blessed in him.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:19 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.4.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/4/13/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.4.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/4/13/).