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Church History 7.24.1

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

Summary: Dionysius wrote On Promises against Bishop Nepos, who taught a literal thousand-year earthly kingdom.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:322–323

Ἐπὶ τούτοις πᾶσι σπουδάζεται αὐτῷ καὶ τὰ περὶ ἐπαγγελιῶν δύο συγγράμματα. ἡ δʼ ὑπόθεσις αὐτῷ Νέπως ἦν, ἐπίσκοπος τῶν κατʼ Αἴγυπτον, Ἰουδαϊκώτερον τὰς ἐπηγγελμένας τοῖς ἁγίοις ἐν ταῖς θείαις γραφαῖς ἐπαγγε- λίας ἀποδοθήσεσθαι διδάσκων, καί τινα χιλιάδα ἐτῶν τρυφῆς σωματικῆς ἐπὶ τῆς ξηρᾶς ταύτης ἔσεσθαι ὑποτιθέμενος.

English · Claude translation

Besides all these, he also composed the two books On Promises. The occasion was Nepos, a bishop in Egypt, who taught that the promises made to the saints in the divine Scriptures would be fulfilled in a more Jewish manner, and supposed that there would be a thousand years of bodily luxury on this earth.

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Source
Dindorf 4:322–323 · 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)) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Nepos's millenarianism was based on Rev 20:1–6.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/24/1/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/24/1/).

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