Church History 4.21.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Eusebius lists the orthodox writers of this period, from Hegesippus to Irenaeus.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:170

Ἤκμαζον δὲ ἐν τούτοις ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας Ἡγήσιππός τε, ὃν ἴσμεν ἐκ τῶν προτέρων, καὶ Διονύσιος Κορινθίων ἐπίσκοπος, Πινυτός τε ἄλλος τῶν ἐπὶ Κρήτης ἐπίσκοπος, Φίλιππός τε ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ Ἀπολινάριος καὶ Μελίτων, Μουσανός τε καὶ Μόδεστος, καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν Εἰρηναῖος, ὧν καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς τῆς ἀποστολικῆς παραδόσεως ἡ τῆς ὑγιοῦς πίστεως ἔγγραφος κατῆλθεν ὀρθοδοξία.

English · Claude translation

At this time there flourished in the church Hegesippus, whom we know from what has gone before, Dionysius bishop of the Corinthians, Pinytus, another, bishop of those in Crete, and besides these Philip, Apolinarius, Melito, Musanus, Modestus, and above all Irenaeus; from them the orthodoxy of the sound faith of the apostolic tradition has come down to us in writing.

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Source

Dindorf 4:170 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.21.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/21/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.21.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/21/1/).