Church History 6.36.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Past sixty, Origen at last let stenographers record his public sermons.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:277

Τότε δῆτα, οἶα καὶ εἰκὸς ἦν, πληθυούσης τῆς πίστεως, πεπαρρησιασμένου τε τοῦ καθʼ ἡμᾶς παρὰ πᾶσι λόγου, ὑπὲρ τὰ ἐξήκοντά φασιν ἔτη τὸν Ὠριγένην γενόμενον, ἄτε δὴ μεγίστην ἤδη συλλεξάμενον ἐκ τῆς μακρᾶς παρασκευῆς ἔξιν, τὰς ἐπὶ τοῦ κοινοῦ λεγομένας αὐτῷ διαλέξεις ταχυγράφοις μεταλαβεῖν ἐπιτρέψαι, οὐ πρότερόν ποτε τοῦτο γενέσθαι συγκεχωρηκότα.

English · Claude translation

At that time, as was natural, since the faith was increasing and our teaching was spoken boldly among all, Origen, being, they say, over sixty years old, and having now gathered the greatest skill from long preparation, allowed shorthand writers to take down the discourses he delivered in public, which he had never before permitted.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:277 · 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

Scripture and canon

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.36.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/36/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.36.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/36/1/).