Church History 5.17.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:220

Ἐν τούτῳ δὲ τῷ συγγράμματι καὶ Μιλτιάδου συγγραφέως μέμνηται, ὡς λόγον τινὰ καὶ αὐτοῦ κατὰ τῆς προειρημένης αἱρέσεως γεγραφότος. παραθέμενος γοῦν αὐτῶν λέξεις τινὰς ἐπιφέρει λέγων “ταῦτα εὑρὼν ἔν τινι συγγράμ- “ματι αὐτῶν ἐνισταμένων τῷ Μιλτιάδου τοῦ ἀδελ- “φοῦ συγγράμματι, ἐν ᾧ ἀποδείκνυσι περὶ τοῦ μὴ “δεῖν προφήτην ἐν ἐκστάσει λαλεῖν, ἐπετεμόμην.”

English · Claude translation

In this work he also mentions a writer Miltiades, as having himself written a treatise against the heresy mentioned. After quoting some of their words, he continues: “Having found these things in a certain work of theirs opposing the work of our brother Miltiades, in which he proves that a prophet ought not to speak in ecstasy, I made an abridgement.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:220 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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. Some manuscripts read “Alcibiades” for Miltiades here.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text; wrong breathing in the digital text): παραθἑμενος → παραθέμενος; μὴ “δεῖς → μὴ “δεῖν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.17.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/17/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.17.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/17/1/).