Church History 7.30.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:335

οὔτε ὡς ὑψηλοφρόνει καὶ ὑπερ- ‘ῆρται κοσμικὰ ἀξιώματα ὑποδυόμενος, καὶ δουκη- “νάριος μᾶλλον ἢ ἐπίσκοπος θέλων καλεῖσθαι, καὶ “σοβῶν κατὰ τὰς ἀγορὰς, καὶ ἐπιστολὰς ἀναγινώ- “σκων καὶ ὑπαγορεύων, ἅμα βαδίζων δημοσίᾳ καὶ “δορυφορούμενος, τῶν μὲν προπορευομένων, τῶν δὲ ἐφεπομένων πολλῶν τὸν ἀριθμὸν, ὡς καὶ τὴν πίστιν φθονεῖσθαι καὶ μισεῖσθαι διὰ τὸν ὄγκον αὐ- “τοῦ καὶ τὴν ὑπερηφανίαν τῆς καρδίας·

English · Claude translation

nor how he is haughty and puffed up, assuming worldly dignities and wishing to be called ducenarius rather than bishop, strutting in the market-places, reading letters and dictating them as he walks in public, attended by a bodyguard, some going before and many following, so that the faith is envied and hated because of his pomp and the arrogance of his heart;

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:335 · 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

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. A ducenarius was a high-ranking imperial procurator.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/8/).