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Church History 5.11.4

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

Summary: Clement lists teachers from many lands and says he found rest with the last and greatest, in Egypt.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:211

τούτων ὁ μὲν τῆς Ἑλλάδος, ὁ Ἰωνικὸς, ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς μεγάλης Ἑλλάδος, τῆς Κοίλης ἅτερος αὐτῶν Συρίας ἦν, ὁ “δὲ ἀπʼ Αἰγύπτου, ἄλλοι δὲ ἀνὰ τὴν ἀνατολὴν, ταύτης ὁ μέν τις τῶν Ἀσσυρίων, ὁ δὲ ἐν τῇ Παλαιστίνῃ Ἑβραῖος ἀνέκαθεν. ὑστάτῳ δὲ περιτυχὼν δυνάμει δὲ ἄρα πρῶτος ἦν) ἀνεπαυσάμην, ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ θηράσας λεληθότα

English · Claude translation

Of these, one, the Ionian, was in Greece; another in Magna Graecia; another of them was from Coele-Syria, another from Egypt; and others in the East, one of them an Assyrian, another in Palestine, a Hebrew by descent. When I came upon the last (in power, indeed, he was the first), I found rest, having hunted him out hidden in Egypt.

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Source
Dindorf 4:211 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.1.11 (Miscellanies) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Clement, Miscellanies 1.1.11. The last teacher is probably Pantaenus, as Eusebius thinks.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/11/4/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/11/4/).

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