Church History 6.33.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Origen persuaded Beryllus by argument and restored him to orthodoxy.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:276

ἐπὶ τούτῳ πλείστων ἐπισκόπων ζητήσεις καὶ διαλόγους πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρα πεποιημένων, μεθʼ ἑτέρων παρακληθεὶς Ὠριγένης κάτεισι μὲν εἰς ὁμιλίαν τὰ πρῶτα τῷ ἀνδρὶ, τίνα νοῦν ἔχοι ἀποπειρώμενος, ὡς δʼ ἔγνω ὅ τι καὶ λέγοι, εὐθύνας μὴ ὀρθοδοξοῦντα, λογισμῷ τε πείσας καὶ ἀποδείξει ἀναλαβὼν αὐτὸν, τῇ περὶ τοῦ δόγματος ἐφίστησιν ἀληθείᾳ, ἐπί τε τὴν προτέραν ὑγιῆ δόξαν ἀποκαθίστησι.

English · Claude translation

When very many bishops had held inquiries and discussions with the man about this, Origen was invited along with others. He first entered into conversation with him to find out what he thought; and when he knew what he was saying, he corrected him as unorthodox, persuaded him by reasoning, won him over by proof, established him in the truth of the doctrine, and restored him to his former sound opinion.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:276 · 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

Christology, Heresy

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.33.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/33/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.33.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/33/2/).