Sophia Scriptura

Church History, Book 2, preface 1

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

Summary: Book 2 begins by recalling that Book 1 covered Christ's divinity, the antiquity of Christian teaching, and his life.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:44

[Προοίμιον.] Ὅσα μὲν τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ἱστορίας ἐχρῆν ὡς ἐν προοιμίῳ διαστείλασθαι, τῆς τε θεολογίας πέρι τοῦ σωτηρίου λόγου καὶ τῆς ἀρχαιολογίας τῶν τῆς ἡμετέρας διδασκαλίας δογμάτων, ἀρχαιότητός τε τῆς κατὰ Χριστιανοὺς εὐαγγελικῆς πολιτείας, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰκαὶ ὅσα περὶ τῆς γενομένης ἔναγχος ἐπιφανείας αὐτοῦ, τά τε περὶ τοῦ πάθους καὶ τὰ περὶ τῆς τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐκλογῆς ἐν τῷ πρὸ τούτου, συντεμόντες τὰς ἀποδείξεις διειλήφαμεν.

English · Claude translation

Whatever needed to be set out, as in a preface, for the church history, concerning the theology of the saving Word and the antiquity of the doctrines of our teaching and the ancient character of the Christians' gospel way of life, and also concerning his recent appearance, his Passion, and the choice of the apostles, we treated in the preceding book, abbreviating the proofs.

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Source
Dindorf 4:44 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.
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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • The editor deletes the heading “Preface” (Προοίμιον) printed before this section.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.0.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/0/1/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.0.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/0/1/).

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