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Church History 6.12.1

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

Summary: Serapion's surviving works include letters to Domninus, who lapsed into Judaism, and to Pontius and Caricus.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:254

Τοῦ δὲ Σαραπίωνος τῆς περὶ λόγους ἀσκήσεως καὶ ἄλλα μὲν εἰκὸς σώζεσθαι παρʼ ἑτέροις ὑπομνήματα, εἰς ἡμᾶς δὲ μόνα κατῆλθε τὰ πρὸς Δομνῖνον, ἐκπεπτωκότα τινὰ παρὰ τὸν τοῦ διωγμοῦ καιρὸν ἀπὸ τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν πίστεως ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰουδαϊκὴν ἐκκλησιαστικοὺς καὶ τὰ πρὸς Πόντιον καὶ Καρικὸν, ἐκκλησιαστικοὺς ἄνδρας, καὶ ἄλλαι πρὸς ἑτέρους ἐπιστολαί·

English · Claude translation

Of Serapion's literary labours other records are likely preserved by others, but there have come down to us only those addressed to Domninus, who in the time of persecution had fallen away from faith in Christ to Jewish will-worship; those to Pontius and Caricus, churchmen; and other letters to other persons.

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Source
Dindorf 4:254 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Serapion of Antioch, Serapion (Serapion of Antioch (letters)) · allusion, medium confidence
Topics
Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • The digital text repeats ἐκκλησιαστικοὺς where a word such as ἐθελοθρησκείαν (“will-worship”) is expected.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/12/1/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/12/1/).

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