Church History 3.28.4

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

Summary: Dionysius (quoted): Cerinthus gave his fiction a trustworthy name and taught an earthly kingdom of Christ.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:120

“Κήρινθον δὲ τὸν καὶ τὴν ἀπʼ ἐκείνου κλη- “θεῖσαν Κηρινθιανὴν αἵρεσιν συστησάμενον ἀξιό- “πιστον ἐπιφημίσαι θελήσαντα τῷ ἑαυτοῦ πλάσματι “ὄνομα. τοῦτο γὰρ εἶναι τῆς διδασκαλίας αὐτοῦ τὸ “δόγμα, ἐπίγειον ἔσεσθαι τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ βασιλείαν. “

English · Claude translation

“Cerinthus, who also founded the heresy called Cerinthian after him, wished to attach a trustworthy name to his own fiction. For this was the doctrine of his teaching, that the kingdom of Christ would be earthly.

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Source

Dindorf 4:120 · 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

Dionysius of Alexandria, On the Promises 2 (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, On the Promises 2 (repeated at 7.25.2–3).

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.28.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/28/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.28.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/28/4/).

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