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Church History 5.1.3

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

Summary: The letter of the churches of Vienne and Lyons opens with a greeting to the brothers in Asia and Phrygia.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:183

παραθήσομαι δὲ τὰς αὐτῶν φωνάς “οἱ ἐν Βιέννῃ καὶ Λουγδούνῳ τῆς Γαλλίας παροικοῦντες δοῦλοι Χριστοῦ τοῖς Ἀσίαν καὶ Φρυγίαν τὴν αὐτὴν τῆς ἀπολυτρώσεως ‘ἡμῖν πίστιν καὶ ἐλπίδα ἔχουσιν ἀδελφοῖς εἰρήνη ‘καὶ χάρις καὶ δόξα ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς καὶ Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν.”

English · Claude translation

I shall set out their own words. [The letter:] “The servants of Christ who sojourn in Vienne and Lyons in Gaul, to the brothers in Asia and Phrygia who have the same faith and hope of redemption as we: peace and grace and glory from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:183 · 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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Ep. Lugd. (Letter of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • From here to 5.2.8 Eusebius quotes the Letter of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons (ca. 177), preserved only in these extracts. The greeting echoes the Pauline form (e.g. Rom 1:7).

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (line-division fragment repeated in the digital text): Γαλ- “ λίας “λίας → Γαλλίας.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/3/).

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