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Church History 4.10.1

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

Summary: Under Antoninus Pius, Telesphorus of Rome died a martyr and Hyginus succeeded; Valentinus and Cerdo were then active in Rome.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:147

Τούτου δὲ τὸ χρεὼν μετὰ πρῶτον καὶ εἰκοστὸν ἔτος ἐκτίσαντος Ἀντωνῖνος ὁ κληθεὶς Εὐσεβὴς τὴν Ῥωμαίων ἀρχὴν διαδέχεται. τούτου δὲ ἐν ἔτει πρώτῳ Τελεσφόρου τὸν βίον ἑνδεκάτῳ τῆς λειτουργίας ἐνιαυτῷ μεταλλάξαντος ῾Υγῖνος τὸν κλῆρον τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἐπισκοπῆς παραλαμβάνει. ἱστορεῖ γε μὴν ὁ Εἰρηναῖος τὸν Τελεσφόρον μαρτυρίῳ τὴν τελευτὴν διαπρέψαι, δηλῶν ἐν ταὐτῷ, κατὰ τὸν δηλούμενον Ῥωμαίων ἐπίσκοπον ῾Υγῖνον Οὐαλεντῖνον ἰδίας αἱρέσεως εἰσηγητὴν, καὶ Κέρδωνα τῆς κατὰ Μαρκίωνα πλάνης ἀρχηγὸν ἐπὶ τῆς ῾Ρώμης ἄμφω γνωρίζεσθαι. γράφει δὲ οὕτως·

English · Claude translation

When he had paid the debt of nature after twenty-one years, Antoninus, called Pius, succeeded to the rule of the Romans. In his first year Telesphorus departed this life in the eleventh year of his ministry, and Hyginus received the lot of the episcopate of the Romans. Irenaeus relates that Telesphorus distinguished his death by martyrdom, showing at the same time that under Hyginus, the bishop of the Romans mentioned, Valentinus, the introducer of his own heresy, and Cerdo, the founder of Marcion's error, were both known at Rome. He writes thus:

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Source
Dindorf 4:147 · 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
  • Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 3.3.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Church office, Martyrdom, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The source is Irenaeus, Haer. 3.3.3 and 3.4.3.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/10/1/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/10/1/).

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