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Church History 4.23.11

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

Summary: Dionysius (quoted): Corinth reads Soter's letter on the Lord's day, as it always reads Clement's earlier letter.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:174

ἐν αὐτῇ δὲ ταύτῃ καὶ τῆς Κλήμεντος πρὸς Κορινθίους μέμνηται ἐπιστολῆς, δηλῶν ἀνέκαθεν ἐξ ἀρχαίου ἔθους ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας τὴν ἀνάγνωσιν αὐτῆς ποιεῖσθαι. λέγει γοῦν “ τὴν “ σήμερον οὖν κυριακὴν ἁγίαν ἡμέραν διηγάγομεν, “ἐν ᾗ ἀνέγνωμεν ὑμῶν τὴν ἐπιστολὴν, ἣν ἕξομεν “ἀεί ποτε ἀναγινώσκοντες νουθετετῖσθαι, ὡς καὶ τὴν “προτέραν ἡμῖν διὰ Κλήμεντος γραφεῖσαν.”

English · Claude translation

In this same letter he also mentions Clement's letter to the Corinthians, showing that it had been the ancient custom from the beginning to read it in the church. He says, at any rate: “Today, then, we have spent the Lord's holy day, on which we read your letter, which we shall always have to read for admonition, as also the former one written to us through Clement.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:174 · 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
  • Dionysius of Corinth, Letter to the Romans (Dionysius of Corinth (letters)) · quotation, high confidence
  • 1 Clem. (1 Clement) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Corinth, Letter to the Romans.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.23.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/23/11/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.23.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/23/11/).

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