Church History 1.4.9

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

Summary: Scripture even calls the patriarchs God's “christs” (anointed ones).

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:18

ἔνθεν αὐτοὺς δὴ τοὺς θεοφιλεῖς ἐκείνους εὕροις ἂν καὶ τῆς τοῦ Χριστοῦ κατηξιωμένους προσωνυμίας, κατὰ τὴν φάσκουσαν περὶ αὐτῶν φωνήν “μὴ ἅψησθε τῶν χριστῶν μου, καὶ ἐν τοῖς προφήταις μου μὴ πονηρεύτεσθε.”

English · Claude translation

Hence you would find that those God-loving men were thought worthy even of the name of Christ, according to the saying about them: “Do not touch my christs, and do no evil among my prophets.”

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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)

Scripture

Ps 105:15 (104:15 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation is Ps 105:15 (104:15 LXX).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.4.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/4/9/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.4.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/4/9/).

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