Church History 10.4.22 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:457

τοῦτον δὴ οὑν τὸν ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν ἐπεσκευασμένον ζῶντος θεοῦ ζῶντα ναὸν — τὸ μέγιστον καὶ ἀληθεῖ λόγῳ θεοπρεπὲς ἱερεῖόν φημι, οὗ τὰ ἐνδοτάτω ἄδυτα τοῖς πολλοῖς ἀθεώρητα καὶ ὄντως ἅγια καὶ τῶν ἁγίων ἅγια — τίς ἂν ἐποπτεύσας ἐξειπεῖν τολμήσειε; τίς δὲ κἂν εἰσκῦψαι περιβόλων ἱερῶν εἴσω δυνατὸς, ὅτι μὴ μόνος ὁ μέγας τῶν ὅλων ἀρχιερεὺς, ᾧ μόνῳ θέμις πάσης λογικῆς ψυχῆς τὰ ἀπόρρητα διερευνᾶσθαι;

English · Claude translation

This living temple of the living God, then, built out of you yourselves (I mean the greatest sanctuary, truly worthy of God, whose innermost shrines are invisible to the many and are truly holy and a holy of holies), who that has beheld it would dare to describe? Who could even peer within its sacred enclosures, except only the great High Priest of all, to whom alone it is permitted to search the secrets of every rational soul?

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:457 · 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

2 Cor 6:16 · allusion, medium confidence
Heb 4:14 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

The allusions are 2 Cor 6:16 and Heb 4:14.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (word wrongly divided and misaccented in the digital text): μέ γᾶς → μέγας.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/22/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/22/).