Church History 10.4.70 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:471–472

τὸν δʼ ὑπερουράνιον χῶρον καὶ τὰ ἐκεῖσε τῶν τῇδε παραδείγματα, τήν τε ἄνω λεγομένην Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ τὸ Σιῶν ὅρος τὸ ἐπουράνιον, καὶ τὴν ὑπερκόσμιον πόλιν τοῦ ζῶντος θεοῦ, ἐν ᾗ μυριάδες ἀγγέλων πανηγύρεις καὶ ἐκκλησία πρωτοτόκων ἀπογεγραμμένων ἐν οὐρανοῖς ταῖς ἀρρήτοις καὶ ἀνεπιλογίστοις ἡμῖν θεολογίαις τὸν σφῶν ποιητὴν καὶ πανηγεμόνα τῶν ὅλων γεραίρουσιν, οὔτις θνητὸς οἶός τε κατʼ ἀξίαν ὑμνῆσαι, ὅτι δὴ ὀφθαλμὸς οὐκ εἶδε καὶ οὖς οὐκ ἤκουσε, καὶ ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἀνέβη, αὐτὰ δὴ ταῦτα ἃ ἡτοίμασεν ὁ θεὸς τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτόν.

English · Claude translation

But the region above the heavens and the patterns there of the things here, the Jerusalem that is called above, the heavenly Mount Zion, and the supramundane city of the living God, in which innumerable festal gatherings of angels and the church of the firstborn enrolled in heaven honor their Maker and the Ruler of all with praises ineffable and incomprehensible to us, no mortal is able to hymn worthily, since “eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for those who love him.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:471–472 · 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

Gal 4:26 · allusion, high confidence
Heb 12:22–23 · allusion, high confidence
1 Cor 2:9 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

The allusions are Gal 4:26 and Heb 12:22–23; the quotation is 1 Cor 2:9.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (letters displaced in the digital text): πρωτοτόκωνπογεγραμμένων ἀ ἐν → πρωτοτόκων ἀπογεγραμμένων ἐν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.70 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/70/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.70 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/70/).