Church History 5.18.3

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

Summary: Apollonius: the prophetesses left their husbands, yet Prisca was falsely called a virgin.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:221–222

καὶ ταῦτα μὲν περὶ τοῦ Μοντανοῦ· καὶ περὶ τῶν προφητίδων δὲ αὐτοῦ ὑποκαταβὰς οὕτω γράφει “δείκνυμεν οὖν “αὐτὰς πρώτας τὰς προφήτιδας ταύτας, ἀφʼ οὗ τοῦ “πνεύματος ἐπληρώθησαν, τοὺς ἄνδρας καταλιπού- “σας. πῶς οὖν ἐψεύδοντο Πρίσκον. παρθένον “καλοῦντες;” εἶτʼ ἐπιφέρει λέγων

English · Claude translation

So much about Montanus. Further on he writes thus about his prophetesses: “We show, then, that these very prophetesses were the first, from the time they were filled with the spirit, to leave their husbands. How then did they lie in calling Prisca a virgin?” Then he continues:

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Source

Dindorf 4:221–222 · 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

Apollonius (Apollonius, Against the Montanists) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy, Marriage

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Apollonius.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): δείκνυμεν οὑν → δείκνυμεν οὖν; ἀφʼ οὑ τοῦ → ἀφʼ οὗ τοῦ.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.18.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/18/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.18.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/18/3/).

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