Church History 6.18.4

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

Summary: Origen held general learning to be useful preparation for studying Scripture.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:261

πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ τῶν ἰδιωτικωτέρων ἐνῆγεν ἐπὶ τὰ ἐγκύκλια γράμματα, οὐ μικρὰν αὐτοῖς ἔσεσθαι φάσκων ἐξ ἐκείνων ἐπιτηδειότητα εἰς τὴν τῶν θείων γραφῶν θεωρίαν τε καὶ παρασκευήν. ὅθεν μάλιστα καὶ ἑαυτῷ ἀναγκαίαν ἡγήσατο τὴν περὶ τὰ κοσμικὰ καὶ φιλόσοφα μαθήματα ἄσκησιν.

English · Claude translation

Many of the less educated he also led to the ordinary curriculum, saying that they would gain from it no small fitness for the study and preparation for the divine Scriptures. Hence above all he considered training in secular and philosophical studies necessary for himself too.

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Source: Dindorf 4:261 · 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: Scripture and canon

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.18.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/18/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.18.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/18/4/).

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