Church History 6.42.3

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

Summary: The aged bishop Chaeremon fled with his wife to the Arabian mountains and was never found.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:288

Χαιρήμων ἦν ὑπεργήρως “τῆς Νείλου καλουμένης ἐπίσκοπος πόλεως. “εἰς τὸ Ἀράβιον ὄρος ἅμα τῇ συμβίῳ ἑαυτοῦ φυγὼν “οὐκ ἐπανελήλυθεν, οὐδὲ ἐδυνήθησαν ἰδεῖν οὐκέτι “καίτοι πολλὰ διερευνησάμενοι οἷ ἀδελφοὶ οὔτε αὐτοὺς οὔτε τὰ σώματα.

English · Claude translation

Chaeremon was a very old man, bishop of the city called Nilopolis. He fled with his wife to the Arabian mountain and did not return; and the brothers, though they searched much, could no longer find either them or their bodies.

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Source

Dindorf 4:288 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution, Church office, Marriage

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria. A married bishop is mentioned without comment.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.42.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/42/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.42.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/42/3/).

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