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Church History 6.23.4

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

Summary: On a journey to Greece, Origen was ordained presbyter at Caesarea, which caused a dispute recorded in Eusebius's Defence of Origen.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:268

καθʼ οὓς Ὠριγένης ἐπειγούσης χρείας ἐκκλησιαστικῶν ἕνεκα πραγμάτων ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα στειλάμενος τὴν διὰ Παλαιστίνης πρεσβυτερίου χειροθεσίαν ἐν Καισαρείᾳ πρὸς τῶν τῇδε ἐπισκόπων ἀναλαμβάνει. τὰ μὲν οὖν ἐπὶ τούτῳ περὶ αὐτοῦ κεκινημένα, τά τε ἐπὶ τοῖς κινηθεῖσι δεδογμένα τοῖς τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν προεστῶσιν, ὅσα τε ἄλλα ἀκμάζων περὶ τὸν θεῖον εἰσενήνεκται λόγον, ἰδίας δεόμενα συντάξεως, μετρίως ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ ἧς ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ πεποιήμεθα ἀπολογίας ἀνεγράψαμεν.

English · Claude translation

In their time Origen, travelling to Greece on urgent church business, received ordination as presbyter at Caesarea from the bishops there on his way through Palestine. The controversy that arose about him on this account, the decisions of the church leaders on the matters in dispute, and all the other things he contributed to the divine word in his prime, which need a separate work, we have recorded in moderate detail in the second book of the Defence we composed on his behalf.

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Source
Dindorf 4:268 · 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
Church office

Notes

Translation notes

  • The Defence of Origen by Pamphilus and Eusebius survives only in Book 1, in Rufinus's Latin.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/23/4/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/23/4/).

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