Sophia Scriptura

Church History 10.4.64

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

Summary: The baptized he strengthens with the deeper teachings of Scripture and enlightens.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:470

ἐκ δὴ τούτων τὰς ἀκηράτους ψυχὰς θείῳ λουτρῷ χρυσοῦ δίκην ἀποσμηχθείσας παραλαβὼν, κἀνταῦθα τοὺς μὲν κίοσι τῶν ἐξωτάτω πολὺ κρείττοσιν ἐκ τῶν ἐνδοτάτω μυστικῶν τῆς γραφής δογμάτων ὑποστηρίζει, τοὺς δὲ τοῖς πρὸς τὸ φῶς ἀνοίγμασι καταυγάζει.

English · Claude translation

From these he takes the pure souls, washed like gold by the divine washing, and here he supports some with pillars far better than the outermost, from the innermost mystical doctrines of Scripture, and illumines others with the openings toward the light.

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Source
Dindorf 4:470 · 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
Topics
Baptism, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • The “divine washing” is baptism; compare Titus 3:5.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong breathing in the digital text): ὐποστηρίζει → ὑποστηρίζει.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.64 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/64/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.64 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/64/).

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