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Church History 7.30.19

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

Summary: When Paul refused to leave the church building, Aurelian ruled it belonged to those in communion with the bishops of Italy and Rome.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:338

ἀλλὰ γὰρ μηδαμῶς ἐκστῆναι τοῦ Παύλου τοῦ τῆς ἐκκλησίας οἴκου θέλοντος, βασιλεὺς ἐντευχθεὶς Αὐρηλιανὸς αἰσιώτατα περὶ τοῦ πρακτέου διείληφε, τούτοις νεῖμαι προστάττων τὸν οἶκον, οἷς ἂν οἱ κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν καὶ τὴν ῾Ρωμαίων πόλιν ἐπίσκοποι τοῦ δόγματος ἐπιστείλαιεν. οὕτω δῆτα ὁ προδηλωθεὶς ἀνὴρ μετὰ τῆς ἐσχάτης αἰσχύνης ὑπὸ τῆς κοσμικῆς ἀρχῆς ἐξελαύνεται τῆς ἐκκλησίας.

English · Claude translation

But when Paul was quite unwilling to leave the church building, the emperor Aurelian, being petitioned, decided most fittingly what should be done, ordering the building to be assigned to those to whom the bishops of the doctrine in Italy and the city of the Romans should write. So the man mentioned was driven out of the church with the utmost disgrace by the secular power.

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Source
Dindorf 4:338 · 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)
Topics
Church office, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • A notable early instance of imperial intervention in a church dispute.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/19/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/19/).

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