Church History 10.4.21 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:456–457

οὐ μὴν ὅσα καὶ οἷα τὰ τῆς τῶν πεπονηκότων προθυμίας κέκριται παρʼ αὐτῷ τῷ θεολογουμένῳ, τὸν ἔμψυχον πάντων ἡμῶν καθορῶντι ναὸν, καὶ τὸν ἐκ ζώντων λίθων καὶ βεβηκότων οἶκον ἐποπτεύοντι, εὖ καὶ ἀσφαλῶς ἱδρυμένων ἐπὶ τῷ θεμελίῳ τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ προφητῶν, ὄντος ἀκρογωνιαίου λίθου αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὃν ἀπεδοκίμασαν μὲν οὐχ οἱ τῆς παλαιᾶς καὶ μηκέτʼ οὔσης ἐκείνης μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς εἰσέτι νῦν τῶν πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων οἰκοδομῆς κακοὶ κακῶν ὄντες ἀρχιτέκτονες, δοκιμάσας δὲ ὁ πατὴρ καὶ τότε καὶ νῦν εἰς κεφαλὴν γωνίας τῆσδε τῆς κοινῆς ἡμῶν ἐκκλησίας ἱδρύσατο.

English · Claude translation

And such a discourse would be needed no less to tell how great and of what kind the zeal of those who labored has been judged to be by him who is himself proclaimed God, who looks upon the living temple of all of us and surveys the house of living and firm stones, well and securely founded on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the cornerstone being Jesus Christ himself, whom the builders rejected, evil architects of evil things, not only of that old building which no longer exists, but also of the building of the majority of men that still exists now; but the Father, having approved him, both then and now set him as the head of the corner of this our common church.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:456–457 · 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

1 Pet 2:4–5 · allusion, high confidence
Eph 2:20 · allusion, high confidence
Ps 118:22 (117:22 LXX) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

The allusions are 1 Pet 2:4–5, Eph 2:20, and Ps 118:22 (117:22 LXX). The opening clause (οὐ μὴν …) is elliptical and continues the thought of 10.4.20 (“they require a discourse of their own”); “him who is proclaimed God” (τῷ θεολογουμένῳ) is Christ.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (line-break hyphen left in the digital text): ἐκ- κλησίας → ἐκκλησίας.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.21 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/21/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.21 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/21/).