Church History 2.13.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The devil brought Simon Magus to Rome, where his sorceries led many astray.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:60

Ἀλλὰ γὰρ τῆς εἰς τὸν σωτῆρα καὶ κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν εἰς πάντας ἀνθρώπους ἤδη διαδεδομένης πίστεως ὁ τῆς ἀνθρώπων πολέμιος σωτηρίας, τὴν βασιλεύουσαν προαρπάσασθαι πόλιν μηχανώμενος, ἐνταῦθα Σίμωνα τὸν πρόσθεν δεδηλωμένον ἄγει, καὶ δὴ ταῖς ἐντέχνοις τἀνδρὸς συναιρόμενος γοητείαις πλείους τῶν τὴν Ῥώμην οἰκούντων ἐπὶ τὴν πλάνην σφετερίζεται.

English · Claude translation

But when faith in our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ was already spreading among all men, the enemy of human salvation, contriving to seize the imperial city first, brought there Simon, mentioned before, and, assisting the man's artful sorceries, won over many of the inhabitants of Rome to his error.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:60 · 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)

Topics

Heresy

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/13/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/13/1/).