Church History 5.16.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:215

προσ- “φάτως δὲ γενόμενος ἐν Ἀγκύρᾳ τῆς Γαλατίας, καὶ “καταλαβὼν τὴν κατὰ Πόντον ἐκκλησίαν ὑπὸ τῆς “νέας ταύτης, οὐχ, ὡς αὐτοί φασι, προφητείας, πολὺ “δὲ μᾶλλον, ὡς δειχθήσεται, ψευδοπροφητείας δια- “τεθρυλημένην, καθʼ ὅσον δυνατὸν, τοῦ κυρίου πα- “ρασχόντος, περὶ αὐτῶν τε τούτων καὶ τῶν προτει- “νομένων ὑπʼ αὐτῶν ἕκαστά τε διελέχθημεν ἡμέραις “πλείοσιν ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησία, ὡς τὴν μὲν ἐκκλησίαν “ἀγαλλιασθῆναι καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπιρρωσθῆ- “ναι, τοὺς δʼ ἐξ ἐναντίας πρὸς τὸ παρὸν ἀποκρουσθῆ- “ναι, καὶ τοὺς ἀντιθέους λυπηθῆναι.

English · Claude translation

But having recently been in Ancyra in Galatia and found the church in Pontus deafened by this new, not prophecy, as they call it, but much rather, as will be shown, false prophecy, we discussed, as far as possible, the Lord granting it, both these people themselves and each of their propositions for many days in the church, so that the church rejoiced and was strengthened in the truth, while the opponents were for the present repulsed and the adversaries grieved.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:215 · 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.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (missing letter in the digital text; wrong accent in the digital text): τεθρυλημἐνην → τεθρυλημένην; ἕκαςά → ἕκαστά.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.16.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/16/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.16.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/16/4/).