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Church History 3.28.1

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

Summary: Cerinthus founded another heresy, as Gaius reports.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:119

Κατὰ τοὺς δεδηλωμένους χρόνους ἑτέρας αἱρέσεως ἀρχηγὸν γενέσθαι Κήρινθον παρειλήφαμεν. Γάϊος, οὗ φωνὰς ἤδη πρότερον παρατέθειμαι, ἐν τῇ φερομένῃ αὐτοῦ ζητήσει ταῦτα περὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ γράφει

English · Claude translation

We have received that in the times indicated Cerinthus became the founder of another heresy. Gaius, whose words I have already quoted earlier, writes this about him in his extant Disputation:

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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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Gaius of Rome, Gaius, Dial. Procl. (Gaius of Rome, Gaius, Dialogue with Proclus (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.28.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/28/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.28.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/28/1/).

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