Church History 5.20.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:225–226

ἔνθα πρὸς τῷ τοῦ συγγράμματος τέλει χαριεστάτην αὐτοῦ σημείωσιν εὑρόντες ἀναγκαίως καὶ ταύτην τῇδε καταλέξομεν τῇ γραφῇ, τοῦτον ἔχουσαν τὸν τρόπον “ὁρκίζω σε τὸν μεταγραψόμενον τὸ βιβλίον τοῦτο κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου “ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ κατὰ τῆς ἐνδόξου παρου- “σίας αὐτοῦ, ἧς ἔρχεται κρῖναι ζῶντας καὶ νεκροὺς, “ἵνα ἀντιβάλῃς ὃ μετεγράψω, καὶ κατορθώσῃς αὐτὸ “πρὸς τὸ ἀντίγραφον τοῦτο, ὅθεν μετεγράψω, ἐπιμε- “λῶς· καὶ τὸν ὅρκον τοῦτον ὁμοίως μεταγράψεις καὶ “θήσεις ἐν τῷ ἀντιγράφῳ.”

English · Claude translation

Finding at the end of that treatise a most gracious note of his, we must include it in this work too. It runs thus: “I adjure you who shall copy this book, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by his glorious coming, when he comes to judge the living and the dead, to compare what you have copied and correct it carefully against this copy from which you copied it; and you shall likewise copy this oath and put it in the copy.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:225–226 · 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

2 Tim 4:1 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Irenaeus, On the Ogdoad (lost); cf. 2 Tim 4:1.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): κατὰ τοὐ κυρίου → κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.20.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/20/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.20.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/20/2/).