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Theophany

Theophania · Περὶ θεοφανείας

About the English. The Greek original is lost; the work survives complete only in a Syriac version. The English here is Samuel Lee's translation of the Syriac (Cambridge, 1843), published as it stands; only OCR slips and non-text (running heads, footnote marks, Lee's footnotes) were removed. No original-language text is shown. Lee's section numbers are used; where the scan lost a section number, that section is joined to the one before it.

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Contents

Reading pages: 1.1–1.29 · 1.30–1.41 · 1.42–1.60 · 1.61–1.74 · 1.75–2.16 · 2.17–2.36 · 2.38–2.54 · 2.55–2.77 · 2.78–2.94 · 2.95–3.20 · 3.21–3.39 · 3.40–3.58 · 3.59–3.78 · 3.79–4.5 · 4.6–4.8 · 4.9–4.14 · 4.15–4.18 · 4.20–4.25 · 4.26–4.35 · 4.36–5.18 · 5.19–5.24 · 5.25–5.38 · 5.41–5.52

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2
  3. 1.4
  4. 1.5
  5. 1.6
  6. 1.7
  7. 1.8
  8. 1.9
  9. 1.10
  10. 1.11
  11. 1.13
  12. 1.14
  13. 1.15
  14. 1.16
  15. 1.17
  16. 1.18
  17. 1.19
  18. 1.20
  19. 1.21
  20. 1.22
  21. 1.23
  22. 1.24
  23. 1.25
  24. 1.26
  25. 1.27
  26. 1.28
  27. 1.29
  28. 1.30
  29. 1.31
  30. 1.32
  31. 1.33
  32. 1.34
  33. 1.35
  34. 1.36
  35. 1.37
  36. 1.38
  37. 1.39
  38. 1.40
  39. 1.41
  40. 1.42
  41. 1.43
  42. 1.44
  43. 1.45
  44. 1.46
  45. 1.47
  46. 1.48
  47. 1.49
  48. 1.50
  49. 1.51
  50. 1.52
  51. 1.53
  52. 1.54
  53. 1.55
  54. 1.56
  55. 1.57
  56. 1.58
  57. 1.59
  58. 1.60
  59. 1.61
  60. 1.62
  61. 1.63
  62. 1.64
  63. 1.65
  64. 1.66
  65. 1.67
  66. 1.68
  67. 1.69
  68. 1.70
  69. 1.71
  70. 1.72
  71. 1.73
  72. 1.74
  73. 1.75
  74. 1.76
  75. 1.77
  76. 1.78
  77. 1.79
  78. 2.1
  79. 2.2
  80. 2.3
  81. 2.4
  82. 2.5
  83. 2.6
  84. 2.7
  85. 2.8
  86. 2.9
  87. 2.10
  88. 2.11
  89. 2.12
  90. 2.13
  91. 2.14
  92. 2.15
  93. 2.16
  94. 2.17
  95. 2.18
  96. 2.19
  97. 2.20
  98. 2.21
  99. 2.23
  100. 2.24
  101. 2.25
  102. 2.26
  103. 2.27
  104. 2.28
  105. 2.29
  106. 2.30
  107. 2.31
  108. 2.32
  109. 2.34
  110. 2.35
  111. 2.36
  112. 2.38
  113. 2.39
  114. 2.40
  115. 2.41
  116. 2.45
  117. 2.46
  118. 2.47
  119. 2.48
  120. 2.49
  121. 2.50
  122. 2.51
  123. 2.53
  124. 2.54
  125. 2.55
  126. 2.56
  127. 2.57
  128. 2.58
  129. 2.59
  130. 2.60
  131. 2.61
  132. 2.62
  133. 2.63
  134. 2.64
  135. 2.65
  136. 2.66
  137. 2.67
  138. 2.68
  139. 2.69
  140. 2.70
  141. 2.71
  142. 2.72
  143. 2.73
  144. 2.74
  145. 2.75
  146. 2.76
  147. 2.77
  148. 2.78
  149. 2.79
  150. 2.80
  151. 2.81
  152. 2.82
  153. 2.83
  154. 2.84
  155. 2.85
  156. 2.86
  157. 2.87
  158. 2.88
  159. 2.89
  160. 2.90
  161. 2.91
  162. 2.92
  163. 2.93
  164. 2.94
  165. 2.95
  166. 2.96
  167. 2.97
  168. 3.1
  169. 3.2
  170. 3.3
  171. 3.4
  172. 3.5
  173. 3.6
  174. 3.7
  175. 3.8
  176. 3.9
  177. 3.10
  178. 3.11
  179. 3.12
  180. 3.13
  181. 3.14
  182. 3.15
  183. 3.16
  184. 3.17
  185. 3.18
  186. 3.19
  187. 3.20
  188. 3.21
  189. 3.22
  190. 3.23
  191. 3.24
  192. 3.25
  193. 3.26
  194. 3.27
  195. 3.28
  196. 3.29
  197. 3.30
  198. 3.31
  199. 3.32
  200. 3.33
  201. 3.36
  202. 3.37
  203. 3.38
  204. 3.39
  205. 3.40
  206. 3.41
  207. 3.42
  208. 3.43
  209. 3.44
  210. 3.45
  211. 3.46
  212. 3.47
  213. 3.48
  214. 3.49
  215. 3.50
  216. 3.51
  217. 3.52
  218. 3.53
  219. 3.54
  220. 3.55
  221. 3.56
  222. 3.57
  223. 3.58
  224. 3.59
  225. 3.60
  226. 3.61
  227. 3.62
  228. 3.63
  229. 3.64
  230. 3.65
  231. 3.66
  232. 3.67
  233. 3.68
  234. 3.69
  235. 3.70
  236. 3.71
  237. 3.72
  238. 3.73
  239. 3.74
  240. 3.75
  241. 3.76
  242. 3.77
  243. 3.78
  244. 3.79
  245. 3.80
  246. 4.1
  247. 4.2
  248. 4.3
  249. 4.4
  250. 4.5
  251. 4.6
  252. 4.7
  253. 4.8
  254. 4.9
  255. 4.10
  256. 4.11
  257. 4.12
  258. 4.13
  259. 4.14
  260. 4.15
  261. 4.16
  262. 4.17
  263. 4.18
  264. 4.20
  265. 4.21
  266. 4.22
  267. 4.23
  268. 4.24
  269. 4.25
  270. 4.26
  271. 4.28
  272. 4.29
  273. 4.32
  274. 4.34
  275. 4.35
  276. 4.36
  277. 4.37
  278. 5.1
  279. 5.2
  280. 5.3
  281. 5.4
  282. 5.5
  283. 5.7
  284. 5.8
  285. 5.10
  286. 5.11
  287. 5.12
  288. 5.18
  289. 5.19
  290. 5.20
  291. 5.21
  292. 5.22
  293. 5.23
  294. 5.24
  295. 5.25
  296. 5.27
  297. 5.28
  298. 5.30
  299. 5.31
  300. 5.32
  301. 5.33
  302. 5.35
  303. 5.37
  304. 5.38
  305. 5.41
  306. 5.43
  307. 5.44
  308. 5.49
  309. 5.50
  310. 5.51
  311. 5.52

About this work

Author
Eusebius of Caesarea
Attribution
authentic · The Greek is lost except for fragments; the work survives complete in a Syriac version (British Museum Add. 12150, written 411). It closely parallels parts of the Demonstration of the Gospel and the Tricennial Oration.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Bishop of Caesarea, in communion with most of the East; sympathetic to Arius but signed Nicaea.
Date
ca. 325–337 (approximate) · Written late in Eusebius's life, perhaps after the Council of Nicaea.
Written at
Caesarea, Palestine (probable)
Language
Greek
Genre
treatise
Reference system
book.section (five books; the section numbers of Lee's 1843 translation, which follow the divisions of the Syriac manuscript). Where the scan lost a section number, that section is joined to the one before it.
SBL abbreviation
Theoph.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG 3485 (not yet checked)
Text from
Samuel Lee, Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, on the Theophania or Divine Manifestation of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated into English from an ancient Syriac version of the Greek original now lost (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1843) (Printed translation in the public domain)
Critical editions
Hugo Gressmann, ed., Eusebius Werke 3.2: Die Theophanie, GCS 11.2 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1904), the Greek fragments with a German translation of the Syriac; Samuel Lee, ed., On the Theophania: A Syriac Version (London, 1842), the Syriac text (cited, not reproduced)