Church History 5.16.15

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

Summary: The writer admits he cannot confirm these reports.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:218

φασὶ γοῦν τοῦτο οὕτως γεγονέναι, ἀλλὰ “μὴ ἄνευ τοῦ ἰδεῖν ἡμᾶς ἐπίστασθαί τι τῶν τοιού- “των νομίζομεν, ὦ μακάριε. ἴσως μὲν γὰρ οὕτως, “ἴσως δὲ οὐχ οὕτως τετελευτήκασι Μοντανός τε καὶ “Θεόδοτος καὶ ἡ προειρημένη γυνή.”

English · Claude translation

They say at least that this happened so; but without having seen it we do not think we know any such thing, blessed man. Perhaps it was so, perhaps not so, that Montanus and Theodotus and the woman mentioned died.”

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Source

Dindorf 4:218 · 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

Anon. Mont. (Anonymous Treatise against the Montanists) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Anonymous Anti-Montanist.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.16.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/16/15/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.16.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/16/15/).

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