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Church History 10.5.15

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

Summary: A further imperial letter to Anulinus restricts the grant to the catholic church and says the emperor wishes property restored to its rightful owners.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:476

Ἀντίγραφον ἑτέρας βασιλικῆς διατάξεως, ἣν αὖθις πεποίηνται, μόνῃ τῇ καθολικῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τὴν δωρεὰν δεδόσθαι ὑποσημηνάμενοι. “Χαῖρε Ἀνυλῖνε, τιμιώτατε ἡμῖν. ἔστιν ὁ τρόπος οὗτος τῆς φιλαγαθίας τῆς ἡμετέρας, ὥστε ἐκεῖνα ἅπερ δικαίῳ ἀλλοτρίῳ προσήκει, μὴ μόνον μὴ ἐνοχλεῖσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀποκαθιστᾶν βούλεσθαι ἡμᾶς, Ἀνυλῖνε τιμιώτατε.

English · Claude translation

Copy of another imperial ordinance which they issued afterward, indicating that the grant was given to the catholic church alone. [Letter of Constantine to Anulinus:] “Greetings, Anulinus, our most honored. It is the custom of our benevolence, most honored Anulinus, to wish that those things which belong by right to another should not only not be disturbed but also be restored.

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Source
Dindorf 4:476 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • Anulinus was proconsul of Africa (313). “Catholic church” is the church in communion with Caecilian of Carthage, as opposed to the Donatist party.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/15/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/15/).

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