Church History 2.4.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Philo excelled in Jewish learning and in Greek philosophy, especially Platonic and Pythagorean.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:51

περὶ μὲν οὑν τὰ θεῖα καὶ πάτρια μαθήματα ὅσον τε καὶ ὁπηλίκον εἰσενήνεκται πόνον ἔργῳ πᾶσι δῆλος· καὶ περὶ τὰ φιλόσοφα δὲ καὶ ἐλευθέρια τῆς ἔξωθεν παιδείας οἶός τις ἦν οὐδὲν δεῖ λέγειν, ὅτε καὶ μάλιστα τὴν κατὰ Πλάτωνα καὶ Πυθαγόραν ἐζηλωκὼς ἀγωγὴν διενεγκεῖν ἅπαντας τοὺς καθʼ ἑαυτὸν ἱστορεῖται.

English · Claude translation

How much and how great labour he devoted to the divine and ancestral studies is plain to all from his work; and there is no need to say what he was in the philosophical and liberal studies of outside learning, since he is said to have surpassed all his contemporaries, especially in his zeal for the way of Plato and Pythagoras.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:51 · 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

Philo (Philo of Alexandria (works)) · allusion, medium confidence

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/4/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/4/3/).