Church History 5.24.15

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

Summary: Irenaeus: earlier Roman bishops sent the eucharist to visitors from communities who kept the fourteenth day.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:233

καὶ οὐδέποτε διὰ τὸ ‘’τοῦτο ἀπεβλήθησάν τινες, ἀλλʼ αὐτοὶ μὴ τηροῦντες “οἱ πρὸ σοῦ πρεσβύτεροι τοῖς ἀπὸ τῶν “τηροῦσιν ἔπεμπον εὐχαριστίαν.

English · Claude translation

And never were any cast out on this account; but the presbyters before you, though they did not keep it, sent the eucharist to those from communities who did keep it.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:233 · 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)
Topics: Eucharist, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Irenaeus, Letter to Victor. The word for “communities” (παροικιῶν) is lost in the digital text. Sending the eucharist (consecrated bread) was a sign of communion.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/15/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/15/).

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