Church History 2.13.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:60–61

“ καὶ ‘’μετὰ τὴν ἀνάληψιν τοῦ κυρίου εἰς οὐρανὸν προεβάλ- “λοντο οἱ δαίμονες ἀνθρώπους τινὰς, λέγοντας ἐαυ- “τοῦς εἶναι θεοὺς, οἳ οὐ μόνον οὐκ ἐδιώχθησαν ὑφʼ “ ὑμῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τιμῶν ἠξιώθησαν· Σίμωνα μέν “ τινα Σαμαρέα τὸν ἀπὸ κώμης λεγομένης Γιττῶν, ὃς ἐπὶ Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος διὰ τῆς τῶν ἐνεργούντων “ δαιμόνων τέχνης δυνάμεις μαγικὰς ποιήσας ἐπὶ τῇ ‘πόλει ὑμῶν τῇ βασιλίδι Ῥώμῃ θεὸς ἐνομίσθη, καὶ “ἀνδριάντι παρʼ ὑμῖν ὡς θεὸς τετίμηται, ἐν τῷ Τι- “ βέρει ποταμῷ μεταξὺ τῶν δύο γεφυρῶν, ἔχων Ῥω “ μαϊκὴν ἐπιγραφὴν ταύτην· SIMONI DEO SANCTO, ” ὅπερ ἐστὶ Σίμωνι θεῷ ἁγίῳ.

English · Claude translation

“And after the ascension of the Lord into heaven the demons put forward certain men who said that they were gods, who were not only not persecuted by you but were even thought worthy of honours: a certain Simon, a Samaritan from a village called Gitta, who in the time of Claudius Caesar, by the art of the demons working in him, performed magical feats in your royal city of Rome, was considered a god, and has been honoured by you with a statue as a god, on the river Tiber between the two bridges, bearing this Latin inscription: SIMONI DEO SANCTO, that is, To Simon the holy god.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:60–61 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Justin, 1 Apol. 26 (First Apology) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Justin, 1 Apol. 26.2. The statue Justin saw was probably dedicated to the Sabine god Semo Sancus (an inscription SEMONI SANCO DEO FIDIO was found on the Tiber island in 1574); Justin appears to have misread it.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.13.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/13/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.13.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/13/3/).