Church History 5.16.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:216

τῶν δὲ “κατʼ ἐκεῖνο καιροῦ ἐν τῇ τῶν νόθων ἐκφωνημάτων “ἀκροάσει γενομένων οἶ μὲν ὡς ἐπὶ ἐνεργουμένῳ καὶ “δαιμονῶντι καὶ ἐν πλάνης πνεύματι ὑπάρχοντι καὶ “τοὺς ὄχλους ταράττοντι ἀχθόμενοι ἐπετίμων καὶ λαλεῖν “ἐκώλυον, μεμνημένοι τῆς τοῦ κυρίου διαστολῆς “τε καὶ ἀπειλῆς πρὸς τὸ φυλάττεσθαι τὴν τῶν “ψευδοπροφητῶν ἐγρηγορότως παρουσίαν· οἱ δὲ ὡς “ἁγίῳ πνεύματι καὶ προφητικῷ χαρίσματι ἐπαιρόμενοι “καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα χαυνούμενοι, καὶ τῆς “τοῦ κυρίου ἐπιλανθανόμενοι, τὸ βλαψίφρον καὶ ὑποκοριστικὸν “καὶ λαοπλάνον πνεῦμα προυκαλοῦντο, “θελγόμενοι καὶ πλανώμενοι ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, εἰς τὸ μηκέτι “κωλύεσθαι σιωπᾶν.

English · Claude translation

Of those who at that time heard the spurious utterances, some were vexed with him as possessed, demon-ridden, in a spirit of error, and disturbing the crowds; they rebuked him and forbade him to speak, remembering the Lord's distinction and warning to guard watchfully against the coming of false prophets. But others, elated as though by a holy spirit and a prophetic gift, and not a little puffed up, and forgetting the Lord's distinction, called forth the mind-harming, flattering, people-deceiving spirit, being charmed and led astray by it, so that he was no longer prevented from speaking.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:216 · 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)

Scripture

Matt 7:15 · allusion, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

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

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Anonymous Anti-Montanist, alluding to Matt 7:15.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (missing letter in the digital text): ἥκιςα → ἥκιστα.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.16.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/16/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.16.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/16/8/).