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Church History 5.13.2

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

Summary: Rhodon: the Marcionites disagree; Apelles holds one first principle but ascribes the prophecies to a hostile spirit, following the prophetess Philumene.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:212

ἄκουε δʼ οὖν καὶ αὐτοῦ ταῦτα γράφοντος διὰ τοῦτο καὶ παρʼ ἑαυτοῖς ἀσύμφωνοι γεγόνασιν, ἀσυστάτου γνώμης ἀντιποιούμενοι. “ἀπὸ γὰρ τῆς τούτων ἀγέλης Ἀπελλῆς μὲν, ὁ τῇ πο- “λιτείᾳ σεμνυνόμενος καὶ τῷ γήρᾳ, μίαν ἀρχὴν τὰς δὲ προφητείας ἐξ ἀντικειμένου λέγει πνεύματος, πειθόμενος ἀποφθέγμασι παρθένου δαιμονώσης, ὄνομα Φιλουμένης.

English · Claude translation

Hear him, then, writing this: “Therefore they have also become discordant among themselves, maintaining an inconsistent opinion. For from their herd Apelles, who prides himself on his manner of life and his age, acknowledges one principle, but says that the prophecies come from an opposing spirit, persuaded by the utterances of a possessed virgin named Philumene.

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Source
Dindorf 4:212 · 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
  • Rhodon (Rhodon, Against Marcion) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Rhodon (to 5.13.4).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/13/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/13/2/).

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