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Church History, Book 7, preface 1

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

Summary: Book 7 will rely largely on the letters of Dionysius of Alexandria.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:297

[Προοίμιον] Τὸν ἕβδομον τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ἱστορίας αὖθις ὁ μέγας ἡμῖν Ἀλεξανδρέων ἐπίσκοπος Διονύσιος ἰδίαις φωναῖς συνεκπονήσει, τῶν καθʼ ἑαυτὸν πεπραγμένων ἕκαστα ἐν μέρει διʼ ὧν καταλέλοιπεν ἐπιστολῶν ὑφηγούμενος. ἐμοὶ δὲ ὁ λόγος ἐντεῦθεν ποιήσεται τὴν ἀρχήν.

English · Claude translation

The seventh book of the Church History the great bishop of the Alexandrians, Dionysius, will again help us compose in his own words, relating in part each of the events of his own time through the letters he has left. From here my account will begin.

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Source
Dindorf 4:297 · 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)) · allusion, high confidence

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.0.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/0/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.0.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/0/1/).

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