Church History 2.18.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Other works on Genesis: On Migration, On Abraham, On Giants, On the Unchangeableness of God, and five books On Dreams.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:70–71

ἔστι δʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ περὶ ἀποικίας, καὶ βίου σοφοῦ τοῦ κατὰ δικαιοσύνην τελειωθέντος, ἢ νόμων ἀγράφων. καὶ ἔτι περὶ γιγάντων, ἢ περὶ τοῦ μὴ τρέπεσθαι τὸ θεῖον, περί τε τοῦ κατὰ Μωυσέα θεοπέμπτους εἶναι τοὺς ὀνείρους πρῶτον, δεύτερον, τρίτον, τέταρτον, πέμπτον. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν τὰ εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐλθόντα τῶν εἰς τὴν γένεσιν.

English · Claude translation

There is also by him On Migration, and On the Life of the Wise Man Made Perfect in Righteousness, or On Unwritten Laws; and further On Giants, or On the Unchangeableness of God, and On Dreams Being Sent by God According to Moses, books one, two, three, four, five. These are the works on Genesis that have come down to us.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:70–71 · 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

Philo (Philo of Alexandria (works)) · allusion, high confidence

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.18.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/18/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.18.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/18/4/).