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Church History 7.30.14

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

Summary: How can Paul warn others when he keeps two young, beautiful women with him?

Greek text · Dindorf 4:337

πῶς γὰρ “ἂν ἐπιπλήξειεν ἢ νουθετήσειεν ἕτερον μὴ συγκατα- “βαίνειν ἐπὶ πλέον εἰς ταὐτὸν γυναικὶ, μὴ ὀλίσθῃ “φυλαττόμενον, ὡς γέγραπται, ὅστις μίαν μὲν ἀπέ “στησεν ἤδη, δύο δὲ ἀκμαζούσας καὶ εὐπρεπεῖς “ὄψιν ἔχει μεθʼ ἑαυτοῦ, κἂν ἀπίῃ που, συμπερι- “φέρει, καὶ ταῦτα τρυφῶν καὶ ὑπερεμπιμπλάμενος; “

English · Claude translation

For how could he rebuke or admonish another not to associate further with a woman, lest he slip, as it is written, when he has already dismissed one, but has two with him in the bloom of youth and fair to look upon, and takes them with him wherever he goes, and this while living in luxury and surfeit?

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:337 · 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
  • Sir 9:1-9 (Sirach) · allusion, low confidence
  • Ep. syn. Ant. (Synodal Letter against Paul of Samosata) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Church office, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the synodal letter against Paul of Samosata; “as it is written” may allude to Sir 9:1–9.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/14/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/14/).

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