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Church History 10.4.25

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

Summary: As the Son does what he sees the Father do, so Paulinus copies Christ's work, like Bezalel who built the tabernacle after heavenly patterns.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:457–458

ὁ μὲν οὖν πρῶτος καὶ μέγας ἡμῶν ἀρχιερεὺς, ὅσα βλέπει τὸν πατέρα ποιοῦντα, ταῦτα, φησὶν, ὁμοίως καὶ ὁ υἱὸς ποιεῖ· ὁ δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ὡσὰν ἐπὶ διδάσκαλον τὸν πρῶτον καθαροῖς νοὸς ὄμμασιν ἀφορῶν, ὅσα βλέπει ποιοῦντα, ὡσὰν ἀρχετύποις χρώμενος παραδείγμασι, τούτων τὰς εἰκόνας, ὡς ἔνι μάλιστα δυνατὸν, εἰς τὸ ὁμοιότατον δημιουργῶν ἀπειργάσατο, οὐδὲν ἐκείνῳ καταλιπὼν τῷ Βεσελεὴλ, ὃν αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς πνεύματος ἐμπλήσας σοφίας καὶ συνέσεως καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἐντέχνου καὶ ἐπιστημονικῆς γνώσεως, τῆς τῶν οὐρανίων τύπων διὰ συμβόλων ναοῦ κατασκευῆς δημιουργὸν ἀνακέκληται.

English · Claude translation

Our first and great High Priest, then, says that whatever he sees the Father doing, these things the Son also does likewise. And this man too, looking with the pure eyes of the mind to the first as to a teacher, has made whatever he sees him doing, using them as archetypal patterns, and has fashioned their images as closely as possible to the likeness, falling in no way short of that Bezalel whom God himself filled with the spirit of wisdom and understanding and of all other skill and knowledge, and called to be the maker of the temple's construction as symbols of heavenly patterns.

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Source
Dindorf 4:457–458 · 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.
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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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Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are John 5:19, Exod 31:2–3, and Heb 8:5.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.25 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/25/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.25 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/25/).

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