Church History 5.10.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Pantaenus, a former Stoic, headed the Christian school at Alexandria.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:209–210

Ἡγεῖτο δὲ τηνικαῦτα τῆς τῶν πιστῶν αὐτόθι διατριβῆς τῶν ἀπὸ παιδείας ἀνὴρ ἐπιδοξότατος, ὄνομα αὐτῷ Πάνταινος, ἐξ ἀρχαίου ἔθους διδασκαλείου τῶν ἱερῶν λόγων παρʼ αὐτοῖς συνεστῶτος, ὃ καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς παρατείνεται, καὶ πρὸς τῶν ἐν λόγῳ καὶ τῇ περὶ τὰ θεῖα σπουδῇ δυνατῶν συγκροτεῖσθαι παρειλήφαμεν. ἐν δὲ τοῖς μάλιστα κατʼ ἐκεῖνο καιροῦ διαλάμψαι λόγος ἔχει τὸν δεδηλωμένον, οἷα καὶ ἀπὸ φιλοσόφου ἀγωγῆς τῶν καλουμένων Στωϊκῶν ὁρμώμενον.

English · Claude translation

At that time a man highly renowned for his learning, named Pantaenus, led the school of the faithful there, for a school of sacred learning had existed among them from ancient custom, which continues to our time, and which we have learned is conducted by men able in speech and in zeal for divine things. It is said that this man was among the most distinguished at that time, as one who had come from the philosophical training of the so-called Stoics.

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Source

Dindorf 4:209–210 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/10/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/10/1/).