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Church History 3.29.4

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

Summary: Clement (quoted): Matthias likewise taught to fight the flesh and nourish the soul by faith and knowledge; these heresies soon died out.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:121

λέγουσι δʼ οὖν καὶ τὸν Ματ- “θίαν οὕτω διδάξαι, σαρκὶ μὲν μάχεσθαι καὶ παρα- “χρᾶσθαι, μηδὲν αὐτῇ πρὸς ἡδονὴν ἐνδιδόντα, ψυ- “χὴν δʼ αὔξειν διὰ πίστεως καὶ γνώσεως.” ταῦτα μὲν οὖν περὶ τῶν κατὰ τοὺς δηλουμένους χρόνους παραβραβεῦσαι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐγκεχειρηκότων, λόγου γε μὴν θᾶττον εἰς τὸ παντελὲς ἀπεσβηκότων, εἰρήσθω.

English · Claude translation

They say, then, that Matthias too taught thus, to fight the flesh and abuse it, yielding nothing to it for pleasure, but to increase the soul through faith and knowledge.” So much, then, about those who in the times mentioned attempted to cheat the truth, but were extinguished completely faster than it takes to tell.

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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. 3.4.26 (Miscellanies) · quotation, high confidence
  • Trad. Matt. (Traditions of Matthias) · quotation, medium confidence
Topics
Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Clement, Strom. 3.4.26, citing the Traditions of Matthias.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.29.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/29/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.29.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/29/4/).

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