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Church History 10.4.56

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

Summary: The Son created the soul in his own image, rational and incorruptible, to be his bride and the temple of the Father and himself.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:467

ἣν αὐτὸς ὁ θεόπαις κατʼ εἰκόνα τὴν αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ δημιουργήσας, πάντῃ τε καὶ κατὰ πάντα τὸ θεοείκελον δεδωρημένος, ἄφθαρτον φύσιν, ἀσώματον, λογικὴν, πάσης γεώδους ὕλης ἀλλοτρίαν, αὐτονοερὰν οὐσίαν, ἅπαξ τὸ πρῶτον ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος εἰς τὸ εἶναι συστησάμενος, νύμφην ἁγίαν καὶ νεὼν πανίερον ἑαυτῷ τε καὶ τῷ πατρὶ κατειργάσατο. ὃ καὶ σαφῶς αὐτὸς ὁμολογῶν ἐκφαίνει, λέγων “ἐνοικήσω ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσω, καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτῶν θεὸς, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι λαός.’’ καὶ τοιαύτη μὲν ἡ τελεία καὶ κεκαθαρμένη ψυχὴ, ἀρχῆθεν οὕτω γεγενημένη, οἵα τὸν οὐράνιον λόγον ἀγαλματοφορεῖν.

English · Claude translation

which the Son of God himself created in his own image, granting it in every way and in all respects likeness to God: an incorruptible nature, incorporeal, rational, foreign to all earthly matter, an essentially intelligent being. Having once at the first brought it from non-being into being, he made it a holy bride and an all-holy temple for himself and the Father. This he himself clearly confesses and declares, saying: “I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” Such is the perfect and purified soul, made from the beginning so as to bear the image of the heavenly Word.

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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.
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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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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is 2 Cor 6:16 (from Lev 26:12); the language of image recalls Gen 1:26–27.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.56 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/56/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.56 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/56/).

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