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Church History 7.30.3

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

Summary: The synod had invited Dionysius, who wrote to the Antiochene church without addressing Paul.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:334

τούτοις μετὰ βραχέα ἐπιλέγουσι ταῦτα ἐπεστέλλομεν δὲ ἅμα καὶ παρεκαλοῦμεν πολλοὺς καὶ τῶν μακρὰν ἐπισκόπων “ἐπὶ τὴν θεραπείαν τῆς θανατηφόρου διδασκαλίας, “ὥσπερ καὶ Διονύσιον τὸν ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας, “καὶ Φιρμιλλιανὸν τὸν ἀπὸ τῆς Καππαδοκίας, τοὺς “μακαρίτας, ὧν ὁ μὲν καὶ ἐπέστειλεν εἰς τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν, τὸν ἡγεμόνα τῆς πλάνης οὐδὲ προσρήσεως ‘ἀξιώσας, οὐδὲ πρὸς πρόσωπον γράψας αὐτῷ, ἀλλὰ τῇ παροικίᾳ πάσῃ, ἧς καὶ τὸ ἀντίγραφον ὑπετάξα- “μεν·

English · Claude translation

Shortly after they add this: “We wrote at the same time and invited many of the bishops far away to the cure of the deadly teaching, such as Dionysius of Alexandria and Firmilian of Cappadocia, of blessed memory. Of these the former wrote to Antioch, not deigning even to address the leader of the error, nor writing to him personally, but to the whole community; a copy of this letter we have appended.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:334 · 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)) · allusion, medium confidence
  • Ep. syn. Ant. (Synodal Letter against Paul of Samosata) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the synodal letter against Paul of Samosata.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/3/).

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