Church History 4.7.5

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

Summary: Many churchmen defended the truth, and some wrote works against these heresies.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:142

πλείστων οὖν ἐκκλησιαστικῶν ἀνδρῶν κατʼ ἐκεῖνο καιρουτῆς ἀληθείας ὑπεραγωνιζομένων, λογικώτερόν τ τῆς ἀποστολικῆς καὶ ἐκκλησιαστικῆς δόξης ὑπερμαχούντων, ἤδη τινὲς καὶ διὰ συγγραμμάτων τοῖς μετέπειτα προφυλακτικὰς αὐτῶν δὴ τούτων τῶν δηλωθεισῶν αἱρέσεων παρεῖχον ἐφόδους.

English · Claude translation

While very many churchmen at that time were contending for the truth and fighting more rationally for the apostolic and church doctrine, some already provided, through their writings too, means of defence for later generations against these very heresies we have mentioned.

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Source: Dindorf 4:142 · 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

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.7.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/7/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.7.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/7/5/).

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