Church History 5.28.9

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

Summary: Natalius was misled by two disciples of Theodotus the cobbler.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:237

οὗτος ἠπατήθη ποτὲ ὑπὸ Ἀσκληπιοδότου “καὶ ἑτέρου Θεοδότου τινὸς τραπεζίτου. ἦσαν δὲ “οὗτοι ἄμφω Θεοδότου τοῦ σκυτέως μαθηταὶ, τοῦ “πρώτου ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ φρονήσει, μᾶλλον δὲ ἀφρο- “σύνῃ, ἀφορισθέντος τῆς κοινωνίας ὑπὸ Βίκτορος, “ὡς ἔφην, τοῦ τότε ἐπισκόπου.

English · Claude translation

He was once deceived by Asclepiodotus and another Theodotus, a banker. Both were disciples of Theodotus the cobbler, who was the first to be excommunicated for this opinion, or rather this folly, by Victor, as I said, who was bishop at that time.

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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: Heresy

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Translation notes

Quotation from the anonymous work against Artemon.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.28.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/28/9/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.28.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/28/9/).

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