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Church History 5.24.12

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

Summary: Irenaeus: practice varies also in the length of the paschal fast.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:232

“οὐδὲ γὰρ μόνον “περὶ τῆς ἡμέρας ἐστὶν ἡ ἀμφισβήτησις, ἀλλὰ καὶ “περὶ τοῦ εἴδους αὐτοῦ τῆς νηστείας. οἱ μὲν γὰρ “οἴονται μίαν ἡμέραν δεῖν αὐτοὺς νηστεύειν, οἱ δὲ “δύο, οἱ δὲ καὶ πλείονας· οἱ δὲ τεσσαράκοντα ὥρας “ἡμερινάς τε καὶ νυκτερινὰς συμμετροῦσι τὴν ἡμέραν “αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

“For the dispute is not only about the day, but also about the very form of the fast. For some think they ought to fast one day, others two, others even more; and some measure their day as forty hours, day and night.

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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
Fasting

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Irenaeus, Letter to Victor (lost; to 5.24.17).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/12/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/12/).

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