Church History 5.19.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Serapion, bishop of Antioch, refers to Apolinarius's writings against the Montanists in a letter to Caricus and Pontius.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:224

Τῶν δὲ Ἀπολιναρίου κατὰ τῆς δηλωθείσης αἱρέσεως μνήμην πεποίηται Σαραπίων, ὃν ἐπὶ τῶν δηλουμένων χρόνων μετὰ Μαξιμῖνον ἐπίσκοπον τῆς Ἀντιοχέων ἐκκλησίας γενέσθαι κατέχει λόγος. μέμνηται δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐν ἰδίᾳ ἐπιστολῇ τῇ πρὸς Καρικὸν καὶ Πόντιον, ἐν ᾗ διευθύνων καὶ αὐτὸς τὴν αὐτὴν αἵρεσιν ἐπιλέγει ταῦτα

English · Claude translation

The writings of Apolinarius against the heresy mentioned are referred to by Serapion, who is said to have become bishop of the church of the Antiochenes after Maximinus in the times in question. He mentions him in his letter to Caricus and Pontius, in which he too corrects the same heresy, saying this:

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:224 · 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

Serapion of Antioch, Serapion (Serapion of Antioch (letters)) · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy, Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/19/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/19/1/).