Church History 1.4.6

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

Summary: The righteous from Adam to Abraham may rightly be called Christians in fact if not in name.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:18

πάντας δὴ ἐκείνους ἐπὶ δικαιοσύνῃ μεμαρτυρημένους, ἐξ αὐτοῦ Ἀβραὰμ ἐπὶ τὸν πρῶτον ἀνιοῦσιν ἄνθρωπον, ἔργῳ Χριστιανοὺς εἰ καὶ μὴ ὀνόματι προσειπών τις οὐκ ἂν ἐκτὸς βάλοι τῆς ἀληθείας.

English · Claude translation

If anyone should call all those who have been witnessed to for righteousness, going back from Abraham himself to the first man, Christians in fact, if not in name, he would not be far from the truth.

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Source: Dindorf 4:18 · 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)

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.4.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/4/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.4.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/4/6/).

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