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Church History 4.16.6

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

Summary: Justin (quoted): Crescens is ignorant or cowardly, a lover of glory rather than of wisdom.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:164

εἰ δὲ καὶ “ἐγνώσθησαν ὑμῖν αἱ ἐρωτήσεις μου καὶ αἱ ἐκείνου “ἀποκρίσεις, φανερὸν ὑμῖν ἐστιν ὅτι οὐδὲν τῶν ἡμετέρων ἐπίσταται· ἢ εἰ ἐπίσταται, διὰ τοὺς ἀκούον- “οντας δὲ οὐ τολμᾷ λέγειν, ὡς πρότερον ἔφην, οὐ “ φιλόσοφος, ἀλλὰ φιλόδοξος ἀνὴρ δείκνυται, ὅς γε “μηδὲ τὸ Σωκρατικὸν ἀξιέραστον ὂν τιμᾷ.” ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ὁ Ἰουστῖνος.

English · Claude translation

But if my questions and his answers have become known to you, it is plain to you that he knows nothing of our affairs; or if he knows, but does not dare to speak because of his hearers, he shows himself, as I said before, to be not a philosopher but a lover of glory, since he does not honour even the Socratic saying, which is worthy of love.” So much Justin.

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Source
Dindorf 4:164 · 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
  • Justin, 2 Apol. 8 (Second Apology) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Justin, 2 Apol. 3.6 (traditional numbering). The digital text repeats -οντας.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.16.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/16/6/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.16.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/16/6/).

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