Church History 4.7.15

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

Summary: The truth raised up champions who refuted the heresies in writing too.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:144

ὅμως δʼ οὖν κατὰ τοὺς δηλουμένους αὖθις παρῆγεν εἰς μέσον ἡ ἀλήθει πλείους ἑαυτῆς ὑπερμάχους, οὐ διʼ ἀγράφων αὐτὸ μόνον ἐλέγχων, ἀλλὰ καὶ διʼ ἐγγράφων ἀποδείξεων κατὰ τῶν ἀθέων αἱρέσεων στρατευομένους.

English · Claude translation

Nevertheless, in the times indicated the truth again brought forward more champions of itself, who campaigned against the godless heresies not only through unwritten refutations but also through written demonstrations.

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Source: Dindorf 4:144 · 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)
Topics: Heresy

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.7.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/7/15/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.7.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/7/15/).

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