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Church History 6.19.7

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

Summary: Porphyry claims Ammonius left Christianity for philosophy while Origen, a Greek, turned Christian but thought like a Greek.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:262–263

Ἀμμώνιος “μὲν γὰρ Χριστιανὸς ἐν Χριστιανοῖς ἀνατραφεὶς τοῖς “γονεῦσιν, ὅτε τοῦ φρονεῖν καὶ τῆς φιλοσοφίας ἥψατο, “εὐθὺς πρὸς τὴν κατὰ νόμους πολιτείαν μετεβάλετο, “Ὠριγένης δὲ Ἕλλὴν ἐν Ἕλλησι παιδευθεὶς λόγοις “πρὸς τὸ βάρβαρον ἐξώκειλε τόλμημα· ᾧ δὴ φέρων “αὑτόν τε καὶ τὴν ἐν τοῖς λόγοις ἕξιν ἐκαπήλευσε, “κατὰ μὲν τὸν βίον Χριστιανῶς ζῶν καὶ παρανόμως, “κατὰ δὲ τὰς περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων καὶ τοῦ θείου “δόξας ἑλληνίζων καὶ τὰ Ἑλλήνων τοῖς ὀθνείοις ὑπο- “βαλλόμενος μύθοις.

English · Claude translation

For Ammonius, a Christian brought up among Christians by his parents, when he began to think and to philosophize, at once changed to a life in accordance with the laws; but Origen, a Greek educated in Greek learning, ran aground on the barbarian recklessness; carrying himself and his skill in reasoning to it, he peddled them, living as a Christian and unlawfully in his manner of life, but in his opinions about things and about the divine acting like a Greek and foisting Greek ideas on foreign fables.

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Source
Dindorf 4:262–263 · 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
  • Porphyry, Porphyry, Chr. (Porphyry, Against the Christians (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Porphyry, Against the Christians. Eusebius disputes both claims (6.19.9–10).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.19.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/19/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.19.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/19/7/).

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