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Church History 4.18.6

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

Summary: Justin's Dialogue with Trypho, set at Ephesus, tells of his philosophical search and conversion.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:168

καὶ διάλογον δὲ πρὸς Ἰουδαίους συνέταξεν, ὃν ἐπὶ τῆς Ἐφεσίων πόλεως πρὸς Τρύφωνα τῶν τότε Ἑβραίων ἐπισημότατον πεποίηται, ἐν ᾧ τίνα τρόπον ἡ θεία χάρις αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸν τῆς πίστεως παρώρμησε λόγον δηλοῖ, ὁποίαν τε πρότερον περὶ τὰ φιλόσοφα μαθήματα σπουδὴν εἰσενήνεκται καὶ ὅσην ἐποιήσατο τῆς ἀληθείας ἐκθυμοτάτην ζήτησιν.

English · Claude translation

He also composed a dialogue against the Jews, which he held at the city of Ephesus with Trypho, the most distinguished of the Hebrews of that time, in which he shows how divine grace urged him on to the word of faith, and what zeal he had formerly devoted to philosophical studies, and how ardent a search for the truth he had made.

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Dindorf 4:168 · 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
  • Justin, Dial. 1–8 (Dialogue with Trypho) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Compare Dial. 1–8.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.18.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/18/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.18.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/18/6/).

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