Sophia Scriptura

Church History 10.4.55

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

Summary: More wonderful than the visible church is its spiritual pattern, the rebuilding of the soul.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:467

θαῦμα μὲν οὑν μέγιστον τοῦτο καὶ πέρα πάσης ἐκπλήξεως, μάλιστα τοῖς ἐπὶ μόνῃ τῇ τῶν ἔξωθεν φαντασίᾳ τὸν νοῦν προσανέχουσι. θαυμάτων δὲ θαυμασιώτερα τά τε ἀρχέτυπα, καὶ τούτων τὰ πρωτότυπα νοητὰ καὶ θεοπρεπῆ παραδείγματα, τῆς ἐνθέου φημὶ καὶ λογικῆς ἐν ψυχαῖς οἰκοδομῆς ἀνανεώματα·

English · Claude translation

This is indeed a very great wonder, beyond all amazement, especially to those who attend only to the appearance of outward things. But more wonderful than wonders are the archetypes, and their intelligible and divine prototypes and patterns, I mean the renewals of the divine and rational building in souls,

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Source
Dindorf 4:467 · 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)

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  • Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text): παὶ λογικῆς → καὶ λογικῆς.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.55 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/55/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.55 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/55/).

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