Church History 6.14.8

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

Summary: Alexander of Jerusalem, writing to Origen, recalls their shared friendship with earlier teachers.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:258

πάλιν δʼ ὁ δηλωθεὶς Ἀλέξανδρος τοῦ Κλήμεντος, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τοῦ Πανταίνου ἔν τινι πρὸς Ὠριγένην ἐπιστολῇ μνημονεύει, ὡς δὴ γνωρίμων αὐτῷ γενομένων τῶν ἀνδρῶν. γράφει δὲ οὕτως “τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ θέλημα θεοῦ, ὡς οἶδας, γέγονεν, ἔνα ἡ ἀπὸ προγόνων ἡμῖν “φιλία μένῃ ἄσυλος, μᾶλλον δὲ θερμοτέρα ᾖ καὶ βεβαιοτέρα.

English · Claude translation

Again the Alexander mentioned, in a letter to Origen, mentions Clement and also Pantaenus as men he had known. He writes thus: “For this, as you know, has been the will of God, that the friendship begun from our forefathers should remain inviolate, or rather become warmer and firmer.

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Source: Dindorf 4:258 · 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)

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Quotation from Alexander of Jerusalem, Letter to Origen.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.14.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/14/8/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.14.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/14/8/).

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