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Church History 7.30.11

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

Summary: Paul denies that the Son came down from heaven, yet lets his followers call him an angel from heaven.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:336

τὸν μὲν γὰρ υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ οὐ “βούλεται συνομολογεῖν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ κατεληλυθέναι, “(ἵνα τι προλαβόντες τῶν μελλόντων γραφήσεσθαι “θῶμεν· καὶ τοῦτο οὐ λόγῳ ψιλῷ ῥηθήσεται, ἀλλʼ “ἐξ ὧν ἐπέμψαμεν ὑπομνημάτων δείκνυται πολλα- “χόθεν, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ ὅπου λέγει Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν “κάτωθεν), οἱ δὲ εἰς αὐτὸν ψάλλοντες καὶ ἐγκωμιά- “ζοντες ἐν τῷ λαῷ ἄγγελον τὸν ἀσεβῆ διδάσκαλον “ἑαυτῶν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ κατεληλυθέναι λέγουσι, καὶ “ταῦτα οὐ κωλύει, ἀλλὰ καὶ λεγομένοις πάρεστιν ὁ “ὑπερήφανος.

English · Claude translation

For he will not confess with us that the Son of God came down from heaven (to anticipate something of what is to be written; and this will not be said as a bare assertion, but is shown in many places from the records we have sent, not least where he says that Jesus Christ is from below); while those who sing psalms to him and praise him among the people say that their impious teacher is an angel come down from heaven; and he does not prevent this, but the arrogant man is even present when it is said.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:336 · 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
  • Ep. syn. Ant. (Synodal Letter against Paul of Samosata) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Christology, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the synodal letter against Paul of Samosata; cf. John 3:13, 31 and 8:23.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/11/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/11/).

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