Church History 4.26.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:176

τούτων εἰς ἡμετέραν γνῶσιν ἀφῖκται τὰ ὑποτεταγμένα· Μελίτωνος τὰ περὶ τοῦ πάσχα δύο, καὶ τὰ περὶ πολιτείας καὶ προφητῶν, καὶ ὁ περὶ ἐκκλησίας; καὶ ὁ περὶ κυριακῆς λόγος, ἔτι δὲ ὁ περὶ φύσεως ἀνθρώπου, καὶ ὁ περὶ πλάσεως, καὶ ὁ περὶ ὑπακοῆς πίστεως [καὶ ὁ περὶ] αἰσθητηρίων, καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ὁ περὶ ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος ἢ νοὸς, καὶ ὁ περὶ λουτροῦ, καὶ ὁ περὶ ἀληθείας, καὶ περὶ κτίσεως καὶ γενέσεως Χριστοῦ, καὶ λόγος αὐτοῦ περὶ προφητείας, καὶ ὁ περὶ φιλοξενίας, καὶ ἡ κλεὶς, καὶ τὰ περὶ τοῦ διαβόλου, καὶ τῆς ἀποκαλύψεως Ἰωάννου, καὶ ὁ περὶ ἐνσωμάτου θεοῦ, ἐπὶ πᾶσι καὶ τὸ πρὸς Ἀντωνῖνον βιβλίδιον.

English · Claude translation

Of these the following have come to our knowledge. Of Melito: the two books On the Passover; On Christian Life and the Prophets; the discourse On the Church; the discourse On the Lord's Day; further On the Nature of Man; On Creation; On the Obedience of Faith of the Senses; besides these On Soul and Body, or Mind; On Baptism; On Truth; On the Creation and Birth of Christ; his discourse On Prophecy; On Hospitality; The Key; the books On the Devil and the Apocalypse of John; On God Incarnate; and last of all the little book To Antoninus.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:176 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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

Melito of Sardis, Melito (Melito of Sardis (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Of these, only the homily On the Passover survives substantially (rediscovered in the 20th century). The editor deletes “and the one on” (καὶ ὁ περὶ) before “the senses,” making one title; other editors read two works.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/2/).