Church History 6.14.9

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

Summary: Alexander names Pantaenus and Clement as his teachers, through whom he came to know Origen.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:258

πατέρας γὰρ ἴσμεν τοὺς μακαρίους ἐκείνους τοὺς προοδεύσαντας, πρὸς οὓς μετʼ ὀλίγον “ἐσόμεθα, Πάνταινον τὸν μακάριον ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ κύριον, καὶ τὸν ἱερὸν Κλήμεντα κύριόν μου γενό- “μενον καὶ ὠφελήσαντά με, καὶ εἴ τις ἕτερος ῾διʼ ὧν σε ἐγνώρισα τὸν κατὰ πάντα ἄριστον καὶ κύριόν μου καὶ ἀδελφόν.”

English · Claude translation

For we know as fathers those blessed ones who have gone before, with whom we shall soon be: Pantaenus, truly blessed and my master, and the holy Clement, who was my master and helped me, and any others like them; through whom I came to know you, the best in all things, my master and brother.”

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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. 6.14.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/14/9/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.14.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/14/9/).

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