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Church History 5.24.17

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

Summary: Anicetus let Polycarp celebrate the eucharist in Rome, and they parted in peace.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:233–234

καὶ τούτων οὕτως ἐχόντων ἐκοινώνησαν ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ παρεχώρησεν ὁ Ἀνίκητος τὴν εὐχαριστίαν τῷ Πολυκάρπῳ κατʼ ἐντροπὴν δηλονότι, καὶ μετʼ εἰρήνης ἀπʼ ἀλλήλων ἀπηλλάγησαν, πάσης τῆς ἐκκλησίας εἰρήνην ἐχόντων καὶ τῶν τηρούντων καὶ “τῶν μὴ τηρούντων.”

English · Claude translation

And this being so, they communicated with each other, and in the church Anicetus yielded the celebration of the eucharist to Polycarp, obviously out of respect, and they parted from each other in peace, the whole church being at peace, both those who observed and those who did not.”

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:233–234 · 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
Eucharist, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Irenaeus, Letter to Victor.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong breathing in the digital text): εύχαριστίαν → εὐχαριστίαν.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/17/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/17/).

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