Church History 5.28.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Zephyrinus succeeded Victor about 199; the anonymous author tells of an event in his time.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:237

τούτου δὲ ἔτεσι δέκα προστάντος τῆς λειτουργίας διάδοχος καθίσταται Ζεφυρῖνος, ἀμφὶ τὸ ἔνατον τῆς Σεβήρου βασιλείας ἔτος. προστίθησι δὲ ὁ τὸ προειρημένον συντάξας περὶ τοῦ κατάρξαντος τῆς δηλωθείσης αἱρέσεως βιβλίον καὶ ἄλλην κατὰ Ζεφυρῖνον γενομένην πρᾶξιν, ὧδέ πως αὐτοῖς ῥήμασι γράφων

English · Claude translation

After he had presided over the ministry for ten years, Zephyrinus was appointed his successor, about the ninth year of the reign of Severus. The author of the book mentioned about the founder of this heresy adds another incident that happened under Zephyrinus, writing somewhat thus in these very words:

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:237 · 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

Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.28.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/28/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.28.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/28/7/).