Church History 5.7.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:204

Ταῦτα ὁ Εἰρήναιος, ἀκολούθως ταῖς προδιεξοδευθείσαις ἡμῖν ὑπογράψας ἱστορίαις ἐν οἷς ἐπέγραψε πέντε οὖσι τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἐλέγχου καὶ ἀνατροπῆς τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως, ἐν δευτέρῳ τῆς αὐτῆς ὑποθέσεως, ὅτι δὴ καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν ὑποδείγματα τῆς θείας καὶ παραδόξου δυνάμεως ἐν ἐκκλησίαις τισὶν ὑπολέλειπτο, διὰ τούτων ἐπισημαίνεται λέγων

English · Claude translation

This is what Irenaeus writes, in agreement with the accounts we have already set out, in the work, five books in number, which he entitled Refutation and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So Called. In the second book of the same treatise he indicates that manifestations of divine and wonderful power had remained until his time in some churches, saying:

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:204 · 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)

Scripture

1 Tim 6:20 · echo, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

The title echoes 1 Tim 6:20.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misspelling in the digital text): ἀκουλούθως → ἀκολούθως.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/7/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/7/1/).