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Church History 5.18.6

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

Summary: Apollonius: the prophetess feasts with Alexander, a so-called martyr who was really a convicted robber.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:222

καὶ περὶ ἑτέρων δὲ αὖθις τῶν κατʼ αὐτοὺς τετιμημένων ὡς δὴ μαρτύρων οὕτω γράφει ἵνα δὲ μὴ περὶ πλειόνων λέγωμεν, ἡ προφῆτις ἡμῖν εἰπάτω τὰ κατὰ Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν λέγοντα ἑαυτὸν μάρτυρα, ᾧ συνεστιᾶται, ᾧ προσκυνοῦσι καὶ αὐτῷ πολλοὶ, οὗ τὰς λῃστείας καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τολμή- μάτα, ἐφʼ οἶς κεκόλασται, οὐχ ἡμὰς δεῖ λέγειν, ἀλλὰ ὁ ὀπισθόδομος ἔχει.

English · Claude translation

And again about others honoured among them as martyrs he writes thus: “Not to speak of many, let the prophetess tell us about Alexander, who calls himself a martyr, with whom she banquets, and whom many also worship. We need not speak of his robberies and the other crimes for which he has been punished; the record office has them.

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Source
Dindorf 4:222 · 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, Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Apollonius. The ὀπισθόδομος is the public archive.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.18.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/18/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.18.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/18/6/).

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