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Church History 5.20.3

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

Summary: Eusebius commends Irenaeus's care for accurate copying.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:226

καὶ ταῦτα δὲ ὠφελίμως ὑπʼ ἐκείνου λελέχθω, πρὸς ἡμῶν τε ἱστορείσθω, ὡς ἂν ἔχοιμεν ἄριστον σπουδαιοτάτης ἐπιμελείας τοὺς ἀρχαίους ἐκείνους καὶ ὄντως ἱεροὺς ἄνδρας ὑπόδειγμα.

English · Claude translation

Let this be usefully said by him and recorded by us, so that we may have those ancient and truly holy men as the best example of most earnest care.

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Source
Dindorf 4:226 · 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)

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.20.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/20/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.20.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/20/3/).

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