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Church History 6.19.10

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

Summary: Eusebius: Origen was Christian from birth, and Ammonius remained Christian, as his writings show.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:263–264

τῷ τε γὰρ Ὠριγένει τὰ τῆς κατὰ Χριστὸν διδασκαλίας ἐκ προγόνων ἐσώζετο, ὡς καὶ τὰ τῆς πρόσθεν ἱστορίας ἐδήλου, τῷ τε Ἀμμωνίῳ τὰ τῆς ἐνθέου φιλοσοφίας ἀκέραια καὶ ἀδιάπτωτα καὶ μέχρις ἐσχάτης τοῦ βίου διέμενε τελευτῆς, ὥς που καὶ οἱ τἀνδρὸς εἰσέτι νῦν μαρτυροῦσι πόνοι, διʼ ὧν κατέλιπε συγγραμμάτων παρὰ τοῖς πλείστοις εὐδοκιμοῦντος· ὥσπερ οὖν καὶ ὁ ἐπιγεγραμμένος περὶ τῆς Μωυ- σέως καὶ Ἰησοῦ συμφωνίας, καὶ ὅσοι ἄλλοι παρὰ τὸ φιλοκάλοις ηὕρηνται.

English · Claude translation

For Origen preserved the Christian teaching from his forebears, as the preceding history showed; and Ammonius kept his inspired philosophy pure and unshaken to the very end of his life, as the man's labours still testify, through the writings he left, which are esteemed by most — such as the one entitled On the Agreement of Moses and Jesus, and all the others found among lovers of learning.

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Source
Dindorf 4:263–264 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • Eusebius probably confuses Ammonius Saccas with a Christian writer Ammonius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.19.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/19/10/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.19.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/19/10/).

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