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Church History 4.27.1

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

Summary: Apolinarius wrote an apology, books against Greeks and Jews, On Truth, and works against the newly rising Montanist heresy.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:179

Τοῦ δὲ Ἀπολιναρίου πολλῶν παρὰ πολλοῖς σωζομένων τὰ εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐλθόντα ἐστὶ τάδε· λόγος ὁ πρὸς τὸν εἰρημένον βασιλέα, καὶ πρὸς Ἕλληνας συγγράμματα πέντε, καὶ περὶ ἀληθείας πρῶτον καὶ δεύτερον, καὶ πρὸς Ἰουδαίους πρῶτον καὶ δεύτερον, καὶ ἃ μετὰ ταῦτα συνέγραψε κατὰ τῆς τῶν Φρυγῶν αἱρέσεως μετʼ οὐ πολὺν καινοτομηθείσης χρόνον, τότε γε μὴν ὥσπερ ἐκφύειν ἀρχομένης,, ἔτι τοῦ Μοντανοῦ ἅμα ταῖς αὐτοῦ ψευδοπροφήτισιν ἀρχὰς τῆς παρεκτροπῆς ποιουμένου.

English · Claude translation

Of Apolinarius, whose many works are preserved by many, those that have come to us are these: the discourse to the emperor mentioned; five books Against the Greeks; On Truth, books one and two; Against the Jews, books one and two; and what he afterwards wrote against the heresy of the Phrygians, which was newly introduced not long after, but was then just beginning to sprout, while Montanus with his false prophetesses was making the beginnings of his deviation.

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Source
Dindorf 4:179 · 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)
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • “The heresy of the Phrygians” is Montanism.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.27.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/27/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.27.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/27/1/).

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