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Church History 4.23.9

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

Summary: Dionysius's letter to Soter of Rome praises a long-standing Roman custom.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:173–174

ἔτι τοῦ Διονυσίου καὶ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους ἐπιστολὴ φέρεται, ἐπισκόπῳ τῷ τότε Σωτῆρι προσφωνοῦσα, ἐξ ἧς οὐδὲν οἷον τὸ καὶ παραθέσθαι λέξεις, διʼ ὧν τὸ μέχρι τοῦ καθʼ ἡμᾶς διωγμοῦ φυλα χθὲν Ῥωμαίων ἔθος ἀποδεχόμενος ταῦτα γράφε

English · Claude translation

There is extant also a letter of Dionysius to the Romans, addressing Soter, then bishop, from which there is nothing like quoting words in which, approving the custom of the Romans kept until the persecution in our own time, he writes this:

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Source
Dindorf 4:173–174 · 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
  • Dionysius of Corinth, Letter to the Romans (Dionysius of Corinth (letters)) · allusion, high confidence

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.23.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/23/9/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.23.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/23/9/).

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