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Church History 4.26.3

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

Summary: Melito (quoted) dates his On the Passover to a dispute at Laodicea under the proconsul Servilius Paulus, when Sagaris was martyred.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:176

ἐν μὲν οὖν τοῖς περὶ τοῦ πάσχα τὸν χρόνον, καθʼ ὃν συνέταττεν, ἀρχόμενος σημαίνει ἐν τούτοις “ἐπὶ Σερουιλίου Παύλου ἀνθυ- “πάτου τῆς Ἀσίας, ᾧ Σάγαρις καιρῷ ἐμαρτύρησεν, “ἐγένετο ζήτησις πολλὴ ἐν Λαοδικείᾳ περὶ τοῦ πάσχα, “ἐμπεσόντος κατὰ καιρὸν ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις, καὶ “ἐγράφη ταῦτα.”

English · Claude translation

In the books On the Passover he indicates at the beginning the time at which he composed it, in these words: “When Servilius Paulus was proconsul of Asia, at the time when Sagaris bore witness, there was much dispute in Laodicea about the Passover, which fell according to season in those days, and these things were written.”

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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; 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
  • Melito of Sardis, Melito On the Passover (Melito of Sardis (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Melito, On the Passover (fragment). The dispute concerned the date of Easter (the Quartodeciman question).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/3/).

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