Church History 5.13.7

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

Summary: Apelles admitted he believed in one unbegotten God without knowing how to prove it, and Rhodon mocked him.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:213

εἶτʼ ἐπομοσα- “μένου μου τἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν, ὤμνυεν ἀληθεύων λέ- ‘’γειν, μὴ ἐπίστασθαι πῶς εἷς ἐστιν ἀγέννητος θεὸς, “τοῦτο δὲ πιστεύειν. ἐγὼ δὲ γελάσας κατέγνων αὐτοῦ, “διότι διδάσκαλος εἶναι λέγων οὐκ ᾔδει τὸ διδασκό- “μενον ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ κρατύνειν.”

English · Claude translation

Then, when I adjured him to tell the truth, he swore that he was speaking the truth in saying that he did not know how there is one unbegotten God, but that he believed it. I laughed and condemned him, because, while calling himself a teacher, he did not know how to establish what he taught.”

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Dindorf 4:213 · 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.

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

Rhodon (Rhodon, Against Marcion) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Rhodon.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.13.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/13/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.13.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/13/7/).

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