Church History 5.16.6

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

Summary: The anonymous writer turns to the origin of Montanism.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:215–216

ταῦτα καὶ ἑξῆς τούτοις ἕτερα κατʼ ἀρχὰς εἰπὼν τοῦ λόγου, τὸν αἴτιον τῆς δηλουμένης αἱρέσεως προϊὼν τοῦτον ἀνιστορεῖ τὸν τρόπον “ἡ τοίνυν ἔνστασις αὐτῶν καὶ ἡ πρόσφατος τοῦ ἀπο- “σχίσματος αἵρεσις πρὸς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τὴν αἰτία “ἔσχε τοιαύτην.

English · Claude translation

After saying this and other things at the beginning of his treatise, he goes on to relate the originator of the heresy in question in this way: “Their opposition and their recent heresy of separation from the church had the following cause.

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Source

Dindorf 4:215–216 · 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. 5.16.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/16/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.16.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/16/6/).

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