Church History 7.9.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Dionysius wrote further letters on baptism and one about Lucian.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:303–304

ἐπὶ ταῖς προειρημέναις φέρεταί τις καὶ ἄλλη τοῦ αὐτοῦ περὶ βαπτίσματος ἐπιστολὴ, ἐξ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἧς ἡγεῖτο παροικίας Ξυστῷ καὶ τῇ κατὰ Ρώμην ἐκκλησίᾳ προσπεφωνημένη, ἐν ἡ διὰ μακρᾶς ἀποδείξεως τὸν περὶ τοῦ ὑποκειμένου ζητήματος παρατείνει λόγον. καὶ ἄλλη δέ τις αὐτοῦ μετὰ ταύτας φέρεται πρὸς τὸν κατὰ Ῥώμην Διονύσιον, ἡ περὶ Λουκιανοῦ. καὶ περὶ μὲν τούτων τοσαῦτα.

English · Claude translation

Besides those mentioned there is also another letter of his on baptism, addressed from him and the community he led to Xystus and the church at Rome, in which he extends the argument on the question at issue with lengthy proof. And another of his after these is extant, to Dionysius of Rome, the one about Lucian. So much on these matters.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:303–304 · 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, high confidence

Topics

Baptism

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.9.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/9/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.9.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/9/6/).