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Church History 6.43.13

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

Summary: Cornelius asks what merit Novatian had to claim the episcopate: none of long service or suffering.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:292

καὶ αὖθις μεθʼ ἕτερα τούτοις προστίθησι ταῦτα· ‟φέρε δὴ ἑξῆς εἴπωμεν τίσιν ‟ἔργοις ἢ τίσι πολιτείαις τεθαρρηκὼς ἀντεποιήθη ‟τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς. ἆρά γε διὰ τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἐν τῇ ἐκ- ‘κλησίᾳ ἀνεστράφθαι, καὶ πολλοὺς ἀγῶνας ὑπὲρ ‟αὐτῆς ἠγωνίσθαι, καὶ ἐν κινδύνοις πολλοῖς τε καὶ μεγάλοις ἕνεκα τῆς θεοσεβείας γεγονέναι; ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἔστιν·

English · Claude translation

And again, after other things, he adds this: “Come, let us say next on what works or conduct he relied in laying claim to the episcopate. Was it because he had been brought up in the church from the beginning, fought many contests on her behalf, and been in many great dangers for the sake of piety? No, it is not.

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Source
Dindorf 4:292 · 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
Heresy, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Cornelius of Rome.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/13/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/13/).

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