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Church History 7.10.2

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

Summary: Dionysius applies the beast of Revelation 13 to Valerian.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:304

αὖθις δὴ οὖν ὁ Διονύσιος οἴα καὶ περὶ τούτου διέξεισιν, ἐκ τῆς πρὸς Ἑρμάμμωνα ἐπιστολῆς μαθεῖν ἔστιν, ἐν ᾗ τοῦτον ἱστορεῖ τὸν τρόπον “καὶ τῷ Ἰωάννῃ δὲ ὁμοίως ἀποκαλύπτεται. καὶ ἐδόθη γὰρ αὐτῷ, φησὶ, στόμα λαλοῦν μεγάλα καὶ βλασφημίαν, καὶ ἐδόθη αὐτῷ ἐξουσία καὶ μῆνες τεσσαράκοντα δύο.

English · Claude translation

What Dionysius again relates about him can be learned from his letter to Hermammon, in which he gives this account: “And to John likewise it is revealed. For there was given to him, he says, ‘a mouth speaking great things and blasphemy; and there was given him authority, and forty-two months.’

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Source
Dindorf 4:304 · 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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Persecution, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, Letter to Hermammon (to 7.10.9), citing Rev 13:5.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/10/2/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/10/2/).

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