Church History 1.4.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Having shown Christ is not new, Eusebius will now show that Christian teaching is not new either.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:16–17

Ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἀναγκαίως πρὸ τῆς ἱστορίας ἐνταῦθά μοι κείσθω, ὡς ἂν μὴ νεώτερόν τις εἶναι νομίσειε τὸν σωτῆρα καὶ κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν τὸν Χριστὸν διὰ τοὺς τῆς ἐνσάρκου πολιτείας αὐτοῦ χρόνους. ἔνα δὲ μηδὲ τὴν διδασκαλίαν αὐτοῦ νέαν εἶναι καὶ ξένην, ὡσὰν ὑπὸ νέου καὶ μηδὲν τῶν λοιπῶν διαφέροντος ἀνθρώπου συστᾶσάν τις ὑπονοήσειε, φέρε βραχέα καὶ περὶ τούτου διαλάβωμεν.

English · Claude translation

These things, then, had necessarily to be set down here before the history, so that no one might think our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ recent because of the times of his life in the flesh. And so that no one may suppose that his teaching is new and foreign, as if composed by a new man no different from other men, come, let us treat this too briefly.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:16–17 · 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)

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/4/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/4/1/).