Church History 5.24.11 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Irenaeus agreed with Sunday observance but urged Victor not to cut off churches keeping an ancient custom.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:232

ἐν οἷς καὶ ὁ Εἰρηναῖος ἐκ προσώπου ὧν ἡγεῖτο κατὰ τὴν Γαλλίαν ἀδελφῶν ἐπιστείλας παρίσταται μὲν τῷ δεῖν ἐν μόνῃ τῇ τῆς κυριακῆς ἡμέρᾳ τὸ τῆς τοῦ κυρίου ἀναστάσεως ἐπιτελεῖσθαι μυστήριον, τῷ γε μὴν Βίκτορι προσηκόντως, ὡς μὴ ἀποκόπτοι ὅλας ἐκκλησίας θεοῦ, ἀρχαίου ἔθους παράδοσιν ἐπιτηρούσας, πλεῖστα ἕτερα παραινεῖ, καὶ αὐτοῖς ῥήμασι τάδε ἐπιλέγων

English · Claude translation

Among them Irenaeus, writing in the name of the brothers in Gaul whom he led, maintains that the mystery of the Lord's resurrection should be celebrated only on the Lord's day, but fittingly exhorts Victor at length not to cut off whole churches of God for observing the tradition of an ancient custom, saying in these very words:

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:232 · 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

Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/11/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/11/).