Church History 7.5.4

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

Summary: Dionysius: Stephen had threatened to break communion with the eastern bishops who rebaptized heretics.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:299

‟ἐπεστάλκει μὲν οὖν πρότερον καὶ ‟περὶ Ἑλένου καὶ περὶ Φιρμιλλιανοῦ καὶ πάντων ‟τῶν τε ἀπὸ Κιλικίας καὶ Γαλατίας καὶ πάντων τῶν ‟ἑξῆς ὁμορούντων ἐθνῶν, ὡς οὐδὲ ἐκείνοις κοινωνήσων διὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ταύτην αἰτίαν, ἐπειδὴ τοὺς ‟αἱρετικοὺς, φησὶν, ἀναβαπτίζουσι.

English · Claude translation

“He had written before about Helenus and Firmilian and all those from Cilicia and Cappadocia and Galatia and all the neighbouring nations, that he would not have communion with them either, for this same reason, because, he says, they rebaptize the heretics.

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Source

Dindorf 4:299 · 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)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Baptism, Heresy, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, Second Letter on Baptism, to Xystus (to 7.5.5).

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/5/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/5/4/).

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