Church History 4.14.8

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

Summary: Irenaeus (quoted) commends Polycarp's letter to the Philippians.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:153

ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐπιστολὴ “ Πολυκάρπου πρὸς Φιλιππησίους γεγραμμένη ἱκανω- “τάτη, ἐξ ἧς καὶ τὸν χαρακτῆρα τῆς πίστεως αὐτοῦ “ καὶ τὸ κήρυγμα τῆς ἀληθείας οἱ βουλόμενοι καὶ φρον- ‘τίζοντες τῆς ἑαυτῶν σωτηρίας δύνανται μαθεῖν.·

English · Claude translation

There is also a most adequate letter of Polycarp written to the Philippians, from which those who wish and who care for their own salvation can learn both the character of his faith and the preaching of the truth.”

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Source

Dindorf 4:153 · 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
Pol. Phil. (To the Philippians) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Irenaeus, Haer. 3.3.4.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.14.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/14/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.14.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/14/8/).

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