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Church History 5.13.4

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

Summary: Rhodon: some Marcionites assert two principles without proof, and Syneros's followers assert three.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:212–213

καὶ οὗτοι ‘·μὲν κατακολουθήσαντες τῷ Ποντικῷ λύκῳ, καὶ μὴ εὑρίσκοντες τὴν διαίρεσιν τῶν πραγμάτων, ὡς οὐδὲ. ἐκεῖνος, ἐπὶ τὴν εὐχέρειαν ἐτράποντο, καὶ δύο ἀρχὰς ἀπεφήναντο ψιλῶς καὶ ἀναποδείκτως. ἄλλοι δὲ πάλιν ἀπʼ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον ἐξοκείλαντες οὐ μό- “νον δύο, ἀλλὰ καὶ τρεῖς ὑποτίθενται φύσεις, ὧν “ἐστιν ἀρχηγὸς καὶ προστάτης Σύνερως, καθὼς οἶ τὸ “διδασκαλεῖον αὐτοῦ προβαλλόμενοι λέγουσι.”

English · Claude translation

These, following the wolf of Pontus and, like him, not finding the division of things, turned to an easy solution and declared two principles simply and without proof. Others again from them, running aground on something worse, posit not only two but even three natures; their leader and chief is Syneros, as those who put forward his school say.”

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Dindorf 4:212–213 · 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.
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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
  • Rhodon (Rhodon, Against Marcion) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Rhodon.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.13.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/13/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.13.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/13/4/).

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