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Church History 7.25.3

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

Summary: Cerinthus reportedly imagined Christ's kingdom as one of bodily pleasures.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:325–326

τοῦτο γὰρ εἶναι τῆς διδα- ‘σκαλίας αὐτοῦ τὸ δόγμα, ἐπίγειον ἔσεσθαι τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ βασιλείαν, καὶ ὧν αὐτὸς ὠρέγετο φιλοσώματος ὢν καὶ πάνυ σαρκικὸς, ἐν τούτοις ὀνειροπολεῖν ἔσεσθαι, γαστρὸς καὶ τῶν ὑπὸ γαστέρα πλησμοναῖς, τουτέστι σιτίοις καὶ ποτοῖς καὶ γάμοις, καὶ διʼ ὧν εὐφημότερον ταῦτα ᾠήθη ποριεῖσθαι, “ἑορταῖς καὶ θυσίαις καὶ ἱερείων σφαγαῖς.

English · Claude translation

For this, they say, was the doctrine of his teaching: that the kingdom of Christ would be on earth; and in the things he himself desired, being a lover of the body and altogether carnal, he dreamed it would consist: in the satisfaction of the belly and what is below the belly, that is, in food and drink and marriages, and, to procure these things under more respectable names, in festivals and sacrifices and slaughterings of victims.

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Source
Dindorf 4:325–326 · 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)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Eschatology, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/3/).

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