Sophia Scriptura

Church History 7.25.5

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

Summary: He defers to faith and wonders rather than rejects what he cannot understand.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:326

οὐκ “ἰδίῳ ταῦτα μετρῶν καὶ κρίνων λογισμῷ, πίστει δὲ “τὸ πλέον νέμων, ὑψηλότερα ἢ ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ καταληφθῆ- “ναι νενόμικα, καὶ οὐκ ἀποδοκιμάζω ταῦτα, ἃ μὴ “συνεώρακα, θαυμάζω δὲ μᾶλλον ὅτι μὴ καὶ εἶδον.’’

English · Claude translation

Not measuring and judging these things by my own reasoning, but assigning more to faith, I have considered them too lofty to be grasped by me; and I do not reject what I have not understood, but rather wonder that I have not also seen it.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:326 · 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
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/5/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.25.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/25/5/).

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