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Church History 6.20.1

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

Summary: Letters of learned churchmen were preserved in Alexander's library at Jerusalem, a source for Eusebius.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:265–266

Ἤκμαζον δὲ κατὰ τοῦτο πλείους λόγιοι καὶ ἐκκλησιαστικοὶ ἄνδρες, ὧν καὶ ἐπιστολὰς ἃς πρὸς ἀλλήλους διεχάραττον ἔτι νῦν σωζομένας εὑρεῖν εὔπορον, αἳ καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐφυλάχθησαν ἐν τῇ κατὰ Αἰλίαν βιβλιοθήκῃ, πρὸς τοῦ τηνικάδε τὴν αὐτόθι διέποντος ἐκκλησίαν Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐπισκευασθείσῃ, ἀφʼ ἧς καὶ αὐτοὶ τὰς ὕλας τῆς μετὰ χεῖρας ὑποθέσεως ἐπὶ ταὐτὸ συναγαγεῖν δεδυνήμεθα.

English · Claude translation

At this time many learned churchmen flourished, whose letters to one another are easily found still preserved. They have been kept even to our time in the library at Aelia, equipped by Alexander, who then governed the church there, from which we too have been able to gather the materials for the present work.

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Source
Dindorf 4:265–266 · 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

  • Aelia (Aelia Capitolina) is Jerusalem.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.20.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/20/1/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.20.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/20/1/).

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