Church History 3.27.1

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

Summary: Others, the Ebionites, were named for their “poor” opinions of Christ.

BothGreekEnglish

Greek text · Dindorf 4:118

Ἄλλους δὲ ὁ πονηρὸς δαίμων, τῆς περὶ τὸν Χριστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ διαθέσεως ἀδυνατῶν ἐκσεῖσαι, θατέρᾳ ληπτοὺς εὑρὼν ἐσφετερίζετο. Ἐβιωναίους τούτους οἰκείως ἐπεφήμιζον οἷ πρῶτοι, πτωχῶς καὶ ταπεινῶς τὰ περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ δοξάζοντας.

English · Claude translation

Others the evil demon, unable to shake from their devotion to the Christ of God, found susceptible in another way and made his own. These the first Christians fittingly called Ebionites, since they held poor and mean opinions about Christ.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:118 · 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)
Topics: Heresy, Christology

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.27.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/27/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.27.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/27/1/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Whole work:BibTeX ·RIS ·Markdown text

Report an error in this passage