Church History 5.8.9

Summary: Irenaeus cites Justin and Ignatius and promised a separate work against Marcion.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:208

ἔτι καὶ Ἰουστίνου τοῦ μάρτυρος καὶ Ἰγνατίου μνήμην πεποίηται, μαρτυρίαις αὖθις καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν τούτοις γραφέντων κεχρημένος. ἐπήγγελται δὲ αὐτὸς ἐκ τῶν Μαρκίωνος συγγραμμάτων ἀντιλέξειν αὐτῷ ἐν ἰδίῳ σπουδάσματι.

English · Claude translation

He has also mentioned Justin the martyr and Ignatius, again using testimonies from what they wrote. And he promised to answer Marcion from his own writings in a separate work.

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Source
Dindorf 4:208 · 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
  • Ign. Rom. 4.1 (To the Romans) · allusion, medium confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Irenaeus cites Ignatius, Rom. 4.1 (Haer. 5.28.4) and Justin (Haer. 4.6.2; 5.26.2).

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): Ἰουστίνου τοὐ → Ἰουστίνου τοῦ.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.8.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/8/9/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.8.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/8/9/).

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