Church History 4.7.8

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

Summary: Agrippa Castor thoroughly exposed Basilides' error.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:142

καὶ ἕτερα δὲ τούτοις παραπλήσια ἀμφὶ τοῦ Βασιλείδου καταλέξας ὁ εἰρημένος οὐκ ἀγεννῶς τῆς δηλωθείσης αἱρέσεως εἰς προῦπτον ἐφώρασε τὴν πλάνην.

English · Claude translation

And having listed other things similar to these about Basilides, the writer mentioned detected, not ignobly, the error of the heresy we have spoken of, bringing it into the open.

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Source: Dindorf 4:142 · 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. 4.7.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/7/8/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.7.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/7/8/).

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