Church History 4.11.1

Summary: Irenaeus (quoted): Valentinus was in Rome from Hyginus to Anicetus; Cerdo repeatedly confessed, taught secretly, and was expelled.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:147

. “ Οὐαλεντῖνος μὲν γὰρ ἦλθεν εἰς ῾Ρώμην ἐπὶ Ὑγίνου, ἤκμασε δὲ ἐπὶ Πίου, καὶ παρέμεινεν ἕως Ἀνικήτου. Κέρδων δὲ ὁ πρὸ Μαρκίωνος καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπὶ Ὑγίνου, ὃς ἦν ἔνατος ἐπίσκοπος, εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ἐλθὼν καὶ ἐξομολογούμενος οὕτω διετέλεσε, ποτὲ μὲν λαθροδι- ῾δασκαλῶν, ποτὲ δὲ πάλιν ἐξομολογούμενος, ποτὲ δὲ ἐλεγχόμενος ἐφʼ οἷς ἐδίδασκε κακῶς, καὶ ἀφιστάμενος τῆς τῶν ἀδελφῶν συνοδίας. ” ταῦτα δέ φησιν ἐν τρίτῳ τῶν πρὸς τὰς αἱρέσεις.

English · Claude translation

“For Valentinus came to Rome under Hyginus, flourished under Pius, and remained until Anicetus. And Cerdo, the predecessor of Marcion, himself also under Hyginus, who was the ninth bishop, came into the church and made public confession, and so continued, now teaching secretly, now again making confession, and now being refuted for his evil teaching and withdrawing from the assembly of the brothers.” This he says in the third book of Against Heresies.

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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.

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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. 3.4.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy, Church office

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/11/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/11/1/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:147

English · Claude translation

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