Sophia Scriptura

Church History 5.28.4

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

Summary: Scripture and earlier writers — Justin, Miltiades, Tatian, Clement — contradict them, calling Christ God.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:236

ἦν δʼ “ἂν τυχὸν πιθανὸν τὸ λεγόμενον, εἰ μὴ πρῶτον μὲν “ἀντέπιπτον αὐτοῖς αἱ θεῖαι γραφαί. καὶ ἀδελφῶν “δέ τινων ἐστὶ γράμματα πρεσβύτερα τῶν Βίκτορος “χρόνων, ἃ ἐκεῖνοι πρὸς τὰ ἔθνη ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀληθείας “καὶ πρὸς τὰς τότε αἱρέσεις ἔγραψαν, λέγω δὲ Ἰου- “στίνου καὶ Μιλτιάδου καὶ Τατιανοῦ καὶ Κλήμεντος “καὶ ἑτέρων πλειόνων, ἐν οἷς ἅπασι θεολογεῖται ὁ “Χριστός.

English · Claude translation

What they say might perhaps be plausible, if first of all the divine Scriptures did not contradict them. And there are also writings of certain brothers older than the times of Victor, which they wrote to the Gentiles on behalf of the truth and against the heresies of that time — I mean Justin and Miltiades and Tatian and Clement and many others — in all of which Christ is spoken of as God.

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Source
Dindorf 4:236 · 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
Christology, Heresy, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the anonymous work against Artemon.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.28.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/28/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.28.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/28/4/).

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