Sophia Scriptura

Church History 10.4.66

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

Summary: The seats in the spiritual church are the souls on which the Spirit's gifts rest, as on the apostles at Pentecost.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:470–471

ἔνεισι δʼ ἐν τῷδε τῷ ἱερῷ καὶ θρόνοι βάθρα τε μυρία καὶ καθιστήρια, ἐν ὅσαις ψυχαῖς τὰ τοῦ θείου πνεύματος ἐφιζάνει δωρήματα, οἷα καὶ πάλαι ὤφθη τοῖς ἀμφὶ τοὺς ἱεροὺς ἀποστόλους, οἷς ἐφάνησαν διαμεριζόμεναι γλῶσσαι ὡσεὶ πυρὸς, ἐκάθισάν τε ἐφʼ ἔνα ἕκαστον αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

There are also in this sanctuary thrones, and countless benches and seats, in all the souls on which the gifts of the divine Spirit rest, such as were seen long ago by the holy apostles and those with them, to whom there appeared tongues distributed as of fire, and sat upon each one of them.

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Source
Dindorf 4:470–471 · 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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Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusion is Acts 2:3.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.66 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/66/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.66 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/66/).

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