Church History 5.13.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Rhodon, once Tatian's pupil, promised to answer Tatian's Problems and wrote on the six days of creation.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:213–214

ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ δὲ συγγράμματι Καλλιστίωνι προσφωνῶν ὁ αὐτὸς μεμαθητεῦσθαι ἐπὶ ῾Ρώμης Τατιανῷ ἑαυτὸν ὁμολογεῖ. φησὶ δὲ καὶ ἐσπουδάσθαι τῷ Τατιανῷ προβλημάτων βιβλίον, διʼ ὧν τὸ ἀσαφὲς καὶ ἐπικεκρυμμένον τῶν θείων γραφῶν παραστήσειν ὑποσχομένου τοῦ Τατιανοῦ αὐτὸς ὁ ῾Ρόδων ἐν ἰδίῳ συγγράμματι τὰς τῶν ἐκείνου προβλημάτων ἐπιλύσεις ἐκθήσεσθαι ἐπαγγέλλεται. φέρεται δὲ τοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰς τὴν ἑξαήμε- ρον ὑπόμνημα.

English · Claude translation

In the same work, addressing Callistio, the same writer admits that he had been a disciple of Tatian at Rome. He says too that a book of Problems had been prepared by Tatian, in which Tatian promised to set forth what was obscure and hidden in the divine Scriptures; and Rhodon himself promises to set out the solutions of Tatian's problems in a work of his own. A commentary of his on the Hexaemeron is also extant.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:213–214 · 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) · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.13.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/13/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.13.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/13/8/).