Church History 5.16.14

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

Summary: Theodotus, an early Montanist leader, reportedly fell to his death during an ecstatic ascent.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:218

καθάπερ καὶ τὸν θαυμαστὸν ἐκεῖνον τὸν “πρῶτον τῆς κατʼ αὐτοὺς λεγομένης προφητείας οἷον “ἐπίτροπόν τινα Θεόδοτον πολὺς αἱρεῖ λόγος, ὡς αἰ- “ρόμενόν ποτε καὶ ἀναλαμβανόμενον εἰς οὐρανοὺς “παρεκστῆναί τε καὶ καταπιστεῦσαι ἑαυτὸν τῷ τῆς “ἀπάτης πνεύματι, καὶ δισκευθέντα κακῶς τελευτῆ- “σαι.

English · Claude translation

So too a widespread report holds that that remarkable Theodotus, the first steward, as it were, of their so-called prophecy, was once lifted up and taken up to heaven, fell into a trance and entrusted himself to the spirit of deceit, and, being hurled down like a discus, died miserably.

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Dindorf 4:218 · 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

Anon. Mont. (Anonymous Treatise against the Montanists) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Anonymous Anti-Montanist.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.16.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/16/14/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.16.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/16/14/).

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