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Church History 3.27.5

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

Summary: They kept the sabbath and Jewish customs, but also Sunday rites in memory of the resurrection.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:119

καὶ τὸ μὲν σάββατον καὶ τὴν ἄλλην Ἰουδαϊκὴν ἀγωγὴν ὁμοίως ἐκείνοις παρεφύλαττον, ταῖς δʼ αὖ κυριακαῖς ἡμέραις ἡμῖν τὰ παραπλήσια εἰς μνήμην τῆς τοῦ κυρίου ἀναστάσεως ἐπετέλουν.

English · Claude translation

And they kept the sabbath and the rest of the Jewish way of life like the others, but on the Lord's days they celebrated rites similar to ours in memory of the Lord's resurrection.

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Source
Dindorf 4:119 · 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, Eucharist

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.27.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/27/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.27.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/27/5/).

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