Church History 4.14.6

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

Summary: Irenaeus (quoted): Polycarp told how John fled a bath-house because Cerinthus was inside.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:152

καὶ εἰσὶν οἱ ἀκηκοότες αὐτοῦ ὅτι Ἰωάννης ὁ του “ κυρίου μαθητὴς ἐν τῇ Ἐφέσῳ πορευθεὶς λούσασθαι, “καὶ ἰδὼν ἔσω Κήρινθον ἐξήλατο τοῦ βαλανείου μη λουσάμενος, ἀλλʼ ἐπειπὼν, φύγωμεν, μὴ καὶ τὸ βαλανεῖον συμπέσῃ, ἔνδον ὄντος Κηρίνθου τοῦ τῆς “ἀληθείας ἐχθροῦ.

English · Claude translation

And there are those who heard from him that John, the disciple of the Lord, going to bathe at Ephesus and seeing Cerinthus within, rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, saying, ‘Let us flee, lest the bath-house fall in, since Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is inside.’

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Source

Dindorf 4:152 · 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

Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 3.3.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Irenaeus, Haer. 3.3.4 (compare 3.28.6).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.14.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/14/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.14.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/14/6/).

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