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Church History 2.25.6

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

Summary: Gaius, a Roman churchman, in his dialogue with the Montanist Proclus, says he can show the apostles' monuments.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:82

οὐδὲν δʼ ἧττον καὶ ἐκκλησιαστικὸς ἀνὴρ, Γάϊος ὀνόματι, κατὰ Ζεφυρῖνον Ῥωμαίων γεγονὼς ἐπίσκοπον· ὃς δὴ Πρόκλῳ τῆς κατὰ Φρύγας προϊσταμένῳ γνώμης ἐγγράφως διαλεχθεὶς αὐτὰ δὴ ταῦτα περὶ τῶν τόπων, ἔνθα τῶν εἰρημένων ἀποστόλων τὰ ἱερὰ σκηνώματα κατατέθειται, φησίν “ἐγὼ δὲ τὰ “τρόπαια τῶν ἀποστόλων ἔχω δεῖξαι.

English · Claude translation

No less does a churchman named Gaius, who lived when Zephyrinus was bishop of the Romans; in a written dialogue with Proclus, the leader of the Phrygian sect, he says this very thing about the places where the sacred remains of the apostles mentioned have been laid: “But I can show the trophies of the apostles.

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Source
Dindorf 4:82 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Gaius of Rome, Gaius, Dial. Procl. (Gaius of Rome, Gaius, Dialogue with Proclus (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation (2.25.6–7) is from Gaius's Dialogue with Proclus (lost). “The Phrygian sect” is Montanism.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.25.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/25/6/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.25.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/25/6/).

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