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Church History 1.2.4

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

Summary: Moses shows the Father creating through his Word, speaking with him at man's creation: “Let us make man.”

Greek text · Dindorf 4:4–5

τοῦτό τοι καὶ ὁ μέγας Μωυσῆς, ὡσὰν προφητῶν ἁπάντων παλαί τατὸς, θείῳ πνεύματι τὴν τοῦ παντὸς οὐσίωσίν τε καὶ διακόσμησιν ὑπογράφων, τὸν κοσμοποιὸν καὶ δημιουργὸν τῶν ὅλων αὐτῷ δὴ τῷ Χριστῷ, καὶ οὐδὲ ἄλλῳ ἢ τῷ θείῳ δηλαδὴ καὶ πρωτογόνῳ ἑαυτοῦ λόγῳ τὴν τῶν ὑποβεβηκότων ποίησιν παραχωροῦντα διδά- σκει, αὐτῷ τε κοινολογούμενον ἐπὶ τῆς ἀνθρωπογο- νίας. “ εἷπε γάρʼ φησὶν “ ὁ θεὸς, ποιήσωμεν ἂνθρω- πον κατʼ εἰκόνα ἡμετέραν καὶ καθʼ ὁμοίωσιν.’’

English · Claude translation

This is what the great Moses, the most ancient of all the prophets, teaches when by the divine Spirit he describes the coming into being and the ordering of the universe: that the maker of the world and creator of all things yielded the making of the things below to Christ himself, and to none other than his own divine and firstborn Word, and that he conversed with him about the creation of man. For, he says, “God said, Let us make man according to our image and according to our likeness.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:4–5 · 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)
Scripture
Topics
Christology, Trinity

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Gen 1:26.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/2/4/).

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