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Church History 6.11.5

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

Summary: From prison Alexander rejoiced to hear of Asclepiades's appointment at Antioch.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:253–254

μέμνηται καὶ τῆς τούτου καταστάσεως Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀντιοχεῦσι γράφων ὧδε “Ἀλέξανδρος, δοῦλος καὶ δέσμιος “Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, τῇ μακαρίᾳ ἐκκλησίᾳ Ἀντιοχέων ἐν “κυρίῳ χαίρειν. ἐλαφρά μοι καὶ κοῦφα τὰ δεσμὰ ὁ “κύριος ἐποίησε κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τῆς εἱρκτῆς, πυθο- “μένῳ μοι τῆς ἁγίας ὑμῶν τῶν Ἀντιοχέων ἐκκλησίας “κατὰ τὴν θείαν πρόνοιαν Ἀσκληπιάδην τὸν ἐπιτη- “δειότατον κατʼ ἀξίαν τὴν πίστιν τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς ἐγκε- “χειρισμένον.”

English · Claude translation

Alexander mentions his appointment too, writing to the Antiochenes thus: “Alexander, servant and prisoner of Jesus Christ, to the blessed church of the Antiochenes in the Lord, greeting. The Lord made my bonds light and easy during the time of my imprisonment, when I learned that by divine providence Asclepiades, most fit by the worthiness of his faith, had been entrusted with the episcopate of your holy church of the Antiochenes.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:253–254 · 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, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Alexander of Jerusalem, Letter to the Antiochenes.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.11.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/11/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.11.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/11/5/).

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