Church History 4.22.5

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): Thebuthis, disappointed of the bishopric, began the corruption; from the Jewish sects came Simon and others, and from them the later heresies.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:171

ἄρχεται δʼ ὁ Θέβουθις διὰ τὸ μὴ γενέσθαι αὐτὸν ἐπίσκοπον ὑπο- “ φθείρειν, ἀπὸ τῶν ἑπτὰ αἱρέσεων ὢν (καὶ αὐτὸς ἦν ἐν τῷ λαῷ), ἀφʼ ὧν Σίμων, ὅθεν οἱ Σιμωνια- “νοὶ, καὶ Κλεόβιος, ὅθεν Κλεοβιηνοὶ, καὶ Δοσίθεος, “ὅθεν Δοσιθεανοὶ, καὶ Γορθαῖος, ὅθεν Γοραθηνοὶ, καὶ Μασβώθεος, ὅθεν Μασβα΄θεοι· ἀπὸ τούτων “ Μενανδριανισταὶ καὶ μαρκιωνισταὶ καὶ Καρποκρατιανοὶ καὶ Οὐαλεντινιανοὶ καὶ Βασιλειδιανοὶ καὶ ἕκαστος ἰδίως καὶ ἑτέρως ἰδίαν δόξαν παρεισηγάγοσαν.

English · Claude translation

But Thebuthis, because he was not made bishop, began to corrupt it, he being from the seven sects (he too was among the people), from which came Simon, whence the Simonians; and Cleobius, whence the Cleobians; and Dositheus, whence the Dositheans; and Gorthaeus, whence the Goratheni; and Masbotheus, whence the Masbothei. From these came the Menandrianists, the Marcionists, the Carpocratians, the Valentinians, and the Basilidians, each privately and differently introducing his own opinion.

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Source

Dindorf 4:171 · 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.

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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

Hegesippus (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

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Heresy

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.22.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/22/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.22.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/22/5/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:171

English · Claude translation

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