Church History 10.4.61 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:469

λαμπρόν τε καὶ διαυγῆ τῆς πάντων ὑμῶν διανοίας τὸν χῶρον ἀπειργασμένος, ἐνταῦθα λοιπὸν τῷ πανσόφῳ καὶ θεοφιλεῖ τῷδε παραδέδωκεν ἡγεμόνι, ὃς τά τε ἄλλα κριτικὸς καὶ ἐπιλογιστικὸς τυγχάνων, τὴν τῶν αὐτῷ κεκληρωμένων ψυχῶν εὖ διαγινώσκων καὶ φυλοκρινῶν διάνοιαν, ἐκ πρώτης ὡς εἰπεῖν ἡμέρας οἰκοδομῶν οὔπω καὶ εἰς δεῦρο πέπαυται, τοτὲ μὲν διαυγῆ τὸν χρυσὸν, τοτὲ δὲ δόκιμον καὶ καθαρὸν τὸ ἀργύριον καὶ τοὺς τιμίους καὶ πολυτελεῖς λίθους ἐν πᾶσιν ὑμῖν ἁρμόττων, ὡς ἱερὰν αὖθις καὶ μυστικὴν ἔργοις τοῖς εἰς ὑμᾶς ἀποπληροῦν προφητείαν, διʼ ἧς εἴρηται

English · Claude translation

And having made bright and clear the ground of the minds of you all, he then handed it over to this all-wise and God-beloved leader, who, being in other respects discerning and judicious, well recognizing and distinguishing the mind of the souls allotted to him, has not ceased building from the first day, so to speak, until now: fitting in among you all now the gleaming gold, now the tested and pure silver and the precious and costly stones, so that he fulfills again in deeds toward you a sacred and mystical prophecy, in which it is said:

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:469 · 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 Cor 3:12 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

The building materials recall 1 Cor 3:12.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong breathing and accent in the digital text): εὑ διαγινώσκων → εὖ διαγινώσκων.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.61 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/61/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.61 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/61/).