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Church History 3.28.5

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

Summary: Dionysius (quoted): Cerinthus's kingdom was a dream of food, drink, marriage, and sacrifices.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:120

καὶ ὧν αὐτὸς ὠρέγετο φιλοσώματος ὢν καὶ πάνυ “σαρκικὸς, ἐν τούτοις ὀνειροπολεῖν ἔσεσθαι, γαστρὸς “καὶ τῶν ὑπὸ γαστέρα πλησμοναῖς, τουτέστι σιτίοις “καὶ ποτοῖς καὶ γάμοις, καὶ διʼ ὧν εὐφημότερον “ταῦτα ᾠήθη ποριεῖσθαι, ἑορταῖς καὶ θυσίαις καὶ ἱε- “ρείων σθαγαῖς.”

English · Claude translation

And the things he himself longed for, being a lover of the body and altogether carnal, he dreamed would be there: satisfactions of the belly and what is below the belly, that is, foods and drinks and marriages, and, by which he thought to procure these under a more respectable name, feasts and sacrifices and slaughters of victims.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:120 · 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
  • Dionysius of Alexandria, On the Promises 2 (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, On the Promises 2.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.28.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/28/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.28.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/28/5/).

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