Church History 4.22.2

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): the Corinthian church held the right doctrine under Primus, with whom he stayed on his way to Rome.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:170

“καὶ ἐπέμενεν ἡ ἐκκλησία ἡ Κορινθίων ἐν τῷ “ὀρθῷ λόγῳ μέχρι Πρίμου ἐπισκοπεύοντος ἐν Κο- “ρίνθῳ· οἷς συνέμιξα πλέων εἰς ῾Ρώμην, καὶ συνδιέ- “τριψα τοῖς Κορινθίοις ἡμέρας ἱκανὰς, ἐν αἷς συνα- “νεπάημεν τῷ ὀρθῷ λόγῳ.

English · Claude translation

“And the church of the Corinthians continued in the right doctrine until Primus was bishop in Corinth. I conversed with them when I sailed to Rome, and I spent a number of days with the Corinthians, during which we were refreshed together by the right doctrine.

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Source

Dindorf 4:170 · 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

Hegesippus (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation (4.22.2–3) is from Hegesippus, Memoirs.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.22.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/22/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.22.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/22/2/).

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