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Church History 4.23.5

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

Summary: Dionysius praised Bishop Philip of Gortyna's church and warned the Cretans against heretics.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:173

καὶ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ δὲ τῇ παροικούσῃ Γόρτυναν ἅμα ταῖς λοιπαῖς κατὰ Κρήτην παροικίαις ἐπιστείλας Φίλιππον ἐπίσκοπον αὐτῶν ἀποδέχεται, ἅτε δὴ ἐπὶ πλείσταις μαρτυρουμένης ἀνδραγαθίαις τῆς ὑπʼ αὐτὸν ἐκκλησίας, τήν τε τῶν αἱρετικῶν διαστροφὴν ὑπομιμνήσκει φυλάττεσθαι.

English · Claude translation

And writing to the church sojourning in Gortyna, together with the other communities in Crete, he welcomes their bishop Philip, since the church under him was attested for very many brave deeds, and reminds them to guard against the perversion of the heretics.

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Source
Dindorf 4:173 · 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 Gortynians (Dionysius of Corinth (letters)) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Heresy, Church office

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.23.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/23/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.23.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/23/5/).

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