Church History 6.2.15 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Origen supported himself by teaching grammar.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:243

προαχθεὶς δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς ἐν τοῖς Ἑλλήνων μαθήμασιν, ἐκθυμότερόν τε καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἐκείνου τελευτὴν τῇ περὶ τοὺς λόγους ἀσκήσει ὅλον ἐπιδοὺς ἑαυτὸν, ὡς καὶ παρασκευὴν ἐπὶ τὰ γραμματικὰ οὐ μετρίαν ἔχειν, μετʼ οὐ πολὺ τῆς τοῦ πατρὸς τελειώσεως τούτοις ἐπιδεδωκὼς ἑαυτὸν, ηὐπόρει τῶν ἀνγκαίων, ὡς ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡλικίᾳ, δαψιλῶς.

English · Claude translation

Having been advanced by his father in Greek learning, and after his death giving himself wholly and more ardently to literary study, so that he had no small equipment in grammar, not long after his father's perfecting he devoted himself to this and was amply supplied with necessities, for one of his age.

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Source

Dindorf 4:243 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.2.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/2/15/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.2.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/2/15/).