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Church History 6.11.2

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

Summary: Alexander came on pilgrimage from Cappadocia, and a revelation led Jerusalem to keep him as bishop.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:253

ταύτῃ δʼ οὖν ὡς κατά τι θεοπρόπιον ἐκ τῆς Καππαδοκῶν γῆς, ἔνθα τὸ πρῶτον τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς ἠξίωτο, τὴν πορείαν ἐπὶ τὰ Ἱεροσόλυμα εὐχῆς καὶ τῶν τόπων ἱστορίας ἕνεκεν πεποιημένον φιλοφρονέστατα οἱ τῇδε ὑπολαβόντες οὐκέτʼ οἴκαδε παλινοστεῖν αὐτῷ ἐπιτρέπουσι, καθʼ ἑτέραν ἀποκάλυψιν καὶ αὐτοῖς νύκτωρ ὀφθεῖσαν, μίαν τε φωνὴν σαφεστάτην τοῖς μάλιστα αὐτῶν σπουδαίοις χρήσασαν· ἐδήλου γὰρ προελθόντας ἔξω πυλῶν τὸν ἐκ θεοῦ προωρισμένον αὐτοῖς ἐπίσκοπον ὑποδέξασθαι. τοῦτο δὲ πράξαντες μετὰ κοινῆς τῶν ἐπισκόπων, οἱ τὰς πέριξ διεῖπον ἐκκλησίας, γνώμης ἐπάναγκες αὐτὸν παραμένειν βιάζονται.

English · Claude translation

So, as if by an oracle, he made the journey from the land of the Cappadocians, where he had first been deemed worthy of the episcopate, to Jerusalem, for prayer and to visit the places. Those there received him most cordially and would no longer allow him to return home, in accordance with another revelation seen by them at night, which gave a very clear voice to the most earnest among them; for it told them to go outside the gates and receive the bishop foreordained for them by God. Having done this with the common consent of the bishops who governed the churches round about, they compelled him to remain.

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Source
Dindorf 4:253 · 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, Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

  • An early instance of pilgrimage to the holy places and of a bishop's translation.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/11/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/11/2/).

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