Church History 3.29.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:121

“ὡραίαν, φασὶ, γυ- “ναῖκα ἔχων οὗτος μετὰ τὴν ἀνάληψιν τὴν τοῦ σωτῆ- “ρος πρὸς τῶν ἀποστόλων ὀνειδισθεὶς ζηλοτυπίαν εἰς “μέσον ἀγαγὼν τὴν γυναῖκα γῆμαι τῷ βουλομένῳ ἐπέ- “τρεψεν. ἀκόλουθον γὰρ εἶναί φασι τὴν πρᾶξιν ταύ- “την ἐκείνῃ τῇ φωνῇ, τῇ ὅτι παραχρᾶσθαι τῇ σαρκὶ “δεῖ. καὶ δὴ κατακολουθήσαντες τῷ γεγενημένῳ τῷ “τε εἰρημένῳ ἁπλῶς καὶ ἀβασανίστως ἀναίδην ἐκ- “πορνεύουσιν οἱ τὴν αἵρεσιν αὐτοῦ μετιόντες.

English · Claude translation

“He had, they say, a beautiful wife, and after the Saviour's ascension, being reproached by the apostles for jealousy, he brought his wife into their midst and allowed anyone who wished to marry her. For they say that this act agrees with that saying of his, that one must ‘abuse the flesh.’ And following what was done and said simply and without examination, those who pursue his heresy commit sexual immorality shamelessly.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:121 · 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

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.4.25 (Miscellanies) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy, Marriage, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.4.25. παραχρᾶσθαι τῇ σαρκί can mean “misuse/abuse the flesh” or “treat the flesh with contempt”; the ambiguity is the point of the story. ἐκπορνεύουσιν is rendered “commit sexual immorality.”

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.29.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/29/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.29.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/29/2/).