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Church History 7.11.12

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

Summary: Dionysius kept gathering the church, in spirit at Alexandria and in person at Cephro.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:308

‟ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ τῆς αἰσθητῆς ἡμεῖς ‟μετὰ τοῦ κυρίου συναγωγῆς ἀπέστημεν, ἀλλὰ τοὺς “μὲν ἐν τῇ πόλει σπουδαιότερον συνεκρότουν ὡς ‟συνὼν, ἀπὼν μὲν τῷ σώματι, ὡς εἰπεῖν, παρὼν δὲ ‟τῷ πνεύματι, ἐν δὲ τῇ Κεφροῖ καὶ πολλὴ συνεπε- ‟δήμησεν ἡμῖν ἐκκλησία, τῶν μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως “ἀδελφῶν ἑπομένων, τῶν δὲ συνόντων ἀπʼ Αἰγύπτου. “

English · Claude translation

“But we did not abstain even from the visible assembly with the Lord; I gathered those in the city more zealously, as though with them, absent in body, as one might say, but present in spirit; and in Cephro a large church also sojourned with us, some of the brothers following from the city, others joining us from Egypt.

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Source
Dindorf 4:308 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, echoing 1 Cor 5:3.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/12/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/12/).

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