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Church History 5.10.2

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

Summary: Pantaenus went as a missionary as far as India, one of many evangelists of that time.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:210

τοσαύτην δʼ οὖν φασιν αὐτὸν ἐκθυμοτάτῃ διαθέσει προθυμίαν περὶ τὸν θεῖον λόγον ἐνδείξασθαι ὡς καὶ κήρυκα τοῦ κατὰ Χριστὸν εὐαγγελίου τοῖς ἐπʼ ἀνατολῆς ἔθνεσι ἀναδειχθῆναι, μέχρι καὶ τῆς Ἰνδῶν στειλάμενον γῆς. ἦσαν γὰρ, ἦσαν εἰσέτι τότε πλείους εὐαγγελισταὶ τοῦ λόγου, ἔνθεον ζῆλον ἀποστολικοῦ μιμήματος συνεισφέρειν ἐπʼ αὐξήσει καὶ οἰκοδομῇ τοῦ θείου λόγου προμηθούμενοι

English · Claude translation

They say that he showed such eagerness for the divine Word, with most ardent disposition, that he was appointed a herald of the gospel of Christ to the nations of the East, travelling as far as the land of the Indians. For there were, there still were at that time, many evangelists of the Word, eager to contribute a divinely inspired zeal, in imitation of the apostles, for the increase and building up of the divine Word.

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Source
Dindorf 4:210 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • “India” in ancient usage can mean southern Arabia or Ethiopia as well as India proper.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/10/2/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/10/2/).

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