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Church History 4.18.9

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

Summary: Irenaeus (quoted) twice cites Justin: he would not believe even the Lord if he preached another God, and Satan blasphemed God only after Christ's coming.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:169

οὑτωσὶ δὲ σπουδῆς εἶναι ἄξιοι καὶ τοῖς παλαιοῖς ἐδόκουν οἱ τἀνδρὸς λόγοι ὡς τὸν Εἰρηναῖον ἀπομνημονεύειν αὐτοῦ φωνὰς, τοῦτο μὲν ἐν τῷ τετάρτῳ πρὸς τὰς αἱρέσεις αὐτὰ δὴ ταῦτα ἐπιλέγοντα “καὶ καλῶς ὁ Ἰουστῖνος ἐν τῷ πρὸς Μαρκίωνα συντάγματί φησιν ὅτι αὐτῷ τῷ κυρίῳ οὐκ ἂν ἐπεί- ‘σθην ἄλλον θεὸν καταγγέλλοντι παρὰ τὸν δημιουργόν, ” τοῦτο δὲ ἐν τῷ πέμπτῳ τῆς αὐτῆς ὑποθέσεως διὰ τούτων “καὶ καλῶς ὁ Ἰουστῖνος ἔφη ὅτι πρὸ μὲν “τῆς τοῦ κυρίου παρουσίας οὐδέποτε ἐτόλμησεν ὁ σα- “τανᾶς βλασφημῆσαι τὸν θεὸν, ἅτε μηδέπω “αὐτοῦ τὴν κατάκρισιν.”

English · Claude translation

The man's works seemed so worthy of study even to the ancients that Irenaeus recalls his words, on the one hand in the fourth book Against Heresies, adding these very words: “And Justin well says in his treatise against Marcion that he would not have believed the Lord himself if he had proclaimed another God besides the Creator”; and on the other hand in the fifth book of the same work in these words: “And Justin well said that before the Lord's coming Satan never dared to blaspheme God, since he did not yet know his own condemnation.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:169 · 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. 4.6.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · quotation, high confidence
  • Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 5.26.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotations from Irenaeus, Haer. 4.6.2 and 5.26.2, citing Justin's lost treatise against Marcion. The digital text has lost ἐπιστάμενος (“knowing”).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.18.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/18/9/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.18.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/18/9/).

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