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Church History 2.13.8

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

Summary: Eusebius charges the Simonians with the utmost depravity toward women.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:62

ὅ τι ποτὲ γὰρ ἂν εἴη ἢ ἐπινοηθείη παντὸς αἰσχροῦ μιαρώτερον, τοῦτο πᾶν ὑπερηκόντισεν ἡ τῶνδε μυσαρωτάτη αἵρεσις, ταῖς ἀθλίαις καὶ παντοίων ὡς ἀληθῶς κακῶν σεσωρευμέναις γυναιξὶν ἐγκαταπαιζόντων.

English · Claude translation

For whatever could be or be imagined more foul than every shameful thing, all this the most abominable heresy of these men has outdone, who make sport of wretched women, truly laden with every kind of evil.

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Source
Dindorf 4:62 · 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
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusion to 2 Tim 3:6. The charge is Eusebius's polemic.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.13.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/13/8/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.13.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/13/8/).

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