Church History 3.36.5

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

Summary: From Smyrna Ignatius wrote to Ephesus, Magnesia, and Tralles, naming their bishops.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:128

οὕτω δῆτα ἐν Σμύρνῃ γενόμενος, ἔνθα ὁ Πολύκαρπος ἦν, μίαν μὲν τῇ κατὰ τὴν Ἔφεσον ἐπιστολὴν ἐκκλησίᾳ γράφει, ποιμένος αὐτῆς μνημονεύων Ὀνησίμου, ἑτέραν δὲ τῇ ἐν Μαγνησίᾳ τῇ πρὸς Μαιάνδρῳ, ἔνθα πάλιν ἐπισκόπου Δάμα μνήμην πεποίηται, καὶ τῇ ἐν Τράλλεσι δὲ ἄλλην, ἧς ἄρχοντα τότʼ ὄντα Πολύβιον ἱστορεῖ.

English · Claude translation

So, being at Smyrna, where Polycarp was, he wrote one letter to the church at Ephesus, mentioning its pastor Onesimus; another to the church in Magnesia on the Maeander, where again he mentions the bishop Damas; and another to the church in Tralles, whose ruler at that time he records was Polybius.

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Source

Dindorf 4:128 · 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

Ign. Eph. 1.3 (To the Ephesians) · allusion, high confidence
Ign. Magn. 2.1 (To the Magnesians) · allusion, high confidence
Ign. Trall. 1.1 (To the Trallians) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

References: Ign. Eph. 1.3; Ign. Magn. 2.1; Ign. Trall. 1.1.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.36.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/36/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.36.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/36/5/).

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