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Church History 5.18.4

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

Summary: Apollonius: a prophetess who takes gold, silver, and fine clothes must be rejected.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:222

“δοκεῖ σοι “γραφὴ κωλύειν προφήτην λαμβάνειν δῶρα καὶ χρή- “ματα; ὅταν οὖν ἴδω τὴν προφῆτιν εἰληφυῖαν “χρυσὸν καὶ ἄργυρον καὶ πολυτελεῖς ἐσθῆτας, πῶς “ αὐτὴν μὴ παραιτήσωμαι;’’

English · Claude translation

“Does it not seem to you that all Scripture forbids a prophet to receive gifts and money? When therefore I see that the prophetess has received gold and silver and costly clothes, how should I not reject her?”

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:222 · 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
Extrabiblical texts
  • Apollonius (Apollonius, Against the Montanists) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Apollonius. A word (probably πᾶσα, “all”) is partly lost in the digital text; cf. Matt 10:9.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.18.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/18/4/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.18.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/18/4/).

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