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Church History 5.7.4

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

Summary: Irenaeus lists exorcisms, prophecy, healings, and even resurrections in the church of his day.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:205

οἶ μὲν γὰρ δαίμονας ἐλαύνουσι βεβαίως καὶ ἀληθῶς, ὥστε πολλάκις καὶ πιστεύειν ἐκείνους αὐτοὺς τοὺς καθαρισθέντας ἀπὸ τῶν πονηρῶν πνευμάτων καὶ εἶναι ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, οἶ δὲ καὶ πρόγνωσιν ἔχουσι τῶν μελλόντων καὶ ὀπτασίας καὶ ῥήσεις προφητικὰς, ἄλλοι δὲ τοὺς κάμνοντας διὰ τῆς τῶν χειρῶν ἐπιθέσεως ἰῶνται καὶ ὑγιεῖς ἀποκαθιστᾶσιν. ἤδη δὲ, καθὼς ἔφαμεν, καὶ νεκροὶ ἠγέρθησαν, καὶ παρέμειναν σὺν ἡμῖν ἔτεσιν ἱκανοῖς.

English · Claude translation

For some drive out demons surely and truly, so that often those very ones who have been cleansed from the evil spirits believe and are in the church; others have foreknowledge of things to come, and visions, and prophetic utterances; others heal the sick by the laying on of hands and restore them to health. And already, as we said, even the dead have been raised and have remained with us for many years.

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Source
Dindorf 4:205 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 2.32.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Irenaeus, Against Heresies 2.32.4.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.7.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/7/4/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.7.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/7/4/).

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