Church History 6.43.10

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

Summary: One of the bishops repented and was received as a layman; the others were replaced.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:291

ἐξ ὣν εἷς μετʼ οὐ πολὺ ἐπανῆλθεν εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, ἀποδυρό- “μενος καὶ ἐξομολογούμενος τὸ ἑαυτοῦ ἁμάρτημα, ‟καὶ ἐκοινωνήσαμεν ὡς λαϊκῷ, ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ δεηθέντος “παντὸς τοῦ παρόντος λαοῦ. καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν δὲ ἐπι- “σκόπων διαδόχους εἰς τοὺς τόπους, ἐν οἷς ἦσαν, χειρο- ‘τονήσαντες ἀπεστάλκαμεν.

English · Claude translation

One of them not long after returned to the church, lamenting and confessing his sin; and we admitted him to communion as a layman, all the people present interceding for him. And we ordained successors for the other bishops and sent them to the places where they were.

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Source

Dindorf 4:291 · 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

Cornelius of Rome, Cornelius (Cornelius of Rome, Letter to Fabius of Antioch) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Cornelius of Rome.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray mark in the digital text): ὡς λαι·κῷ → ὡς λαϊκῷ.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/10/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/10/).

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